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To: justshutupandtakeit; bushpilot
Still peddling this misleading statement and trying to pretend it showed Jefferson a secessionist? When it is clear he is NOT speaking of states in existence but possible future states.

What difference does that make? Permitting the possibility of future states seceding is no different from permitting the possibility of current ones doing the same, hence his explicit statement that leaving would involve a "separation" from the "union." Once again you are simply being slothful since you do not like what the quote says.

1,967 posted on 12/01/2004 5:56:41 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: GOPcapitalist

The difference is that he was speaking of new formations from the territory purchased which might never even be admitted as states in the first place. Thus, it would have been perfectly constitutional had Arkansas organized as a territory and petitioned Congress to be allowed to form a separate nation and Congress agreed.

But to attempt to destroy and organic unity such as was created by the Union is like taking an arm off a body.


2,045 posted on 12/02/2004 7:32:13 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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