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To: WhiskeyPapa
Neo-Union? The Union has been extant unbroken since at least 1774.

Sure. You people distort, pervert, rape, and malign history using 'the union' as your excuse and disguise. You are not 'unionists', you are subversive agents attempting to replace the historical union with a "new" union that is nothing more than twisted creation of your diabolical revisionism. You are "neo-unionists".

305 posted on 01/27/2003 12:42:13 PM PST by thatdewd (nam et ipsa scientia potestas est)
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To: thatdewd
Neo-Union? The Union has been extant unbroken since at least 1774.

Sure.

That's right.

"Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak—but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union."

But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity."

A. Lincoln, 3/4/61

Whatever else it is, it's not revision.

Walt

308 posted on 01/27/2003 1:04:15 PM PST by WhiskeyPapa (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men)
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