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To: rockrr
Lincoln recognized the divine right of people to rebel against tyranny.

Tyranny is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly the Canadians didn't see George III as a tyrant. Nor did the approximate 1/3rd of the US population that regarded themselves as loyalists.

Here is Lincoln's second quote on people's right to independence.

Resolved, 1. That it is the right of any people, sufficiently numerous for national independence, to throw off, to revolutionize, their existing form of government, and to establish such other in its stead as they may choose.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:184?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
180 posted on 02/12/2018 12:26:49 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

You don’t even comprehend your own posts. Lincoln’s quote doesn’t say what you believe it to say.


183 posted on 02/12/2018 12:33:06 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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