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To: Old Teufel Hunden
If it's immobile (such as a house) you are free to sell it if you can't move it.

Being forced to give up your property is NOT a remedy for tyrany.

The Southern states did not put the vote to the people.

Are you claiming that the state governments did not represent the will of the people? Did these governments allow the people to vote on other matters of a constitutional nature (admitting new states, ammendments, etc?)?

234 posted on 08/05/2010 12:20:44 PM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate
"Being forced to give up your property is NOT a remedy for tyrany."

You specified immobile property. That is not a restriction that the government placed on you. That was a restriction that the laws of nature placed on you. If a local, state or federal government is too much for you, you have the power to move. That is your individual right. If you can't take your stuff with you because it's immobile, that is not the fault of the government.

"Are you claiming that the state governments did not represent the will of the people?"

So then the Federal government also represented the will of the people and the Federal government said that you cannot secede.
244 posted on 08/05/2010 12:30:02 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: An.American.Expatriate

‘Are you claiming that the state governments did not represent the will of the people?’

Since slaves were people, I doubt that any of the seceding states represented the will of their people.


255 posted on 08/05/2010 4:23:27 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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