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To: fortheDeclaration; stand watie

The 10th Amendment was not intend to create any new rights or even grant rights to the states. It was about "powers." And what powers were those? The powers necessary to conduct good government within the constitutional and republican framework. Secession is the antithesis of good government.


3,243 posted on 03/03/2005 9:55:07 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: capitan_refugio; fortheDeclaration; stand watie
[capitan_refugio, stepping on his shirttail] Secession is the antithesis of good government.

Not if the other 49 States decide that your little state is the national nuclear-waste repository, biohazard dumping ground, and nucelear test range.

Not if the other States decide to plow you under and salt the ground, and forcibly deport your citizens to Antarctica because they don't like them.

It is written in letters of fire in no quadrant of the sky, that the Union has to be eternal, unbreakable or forever just and unassailable in its actions. Secession can be the proper course of action when hateful abuse is the alternative.

3,258 posted on 03/03/2005 7:42:36 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: capitan_refugio
says you.

when the government becomes the OPPRESSOR, revolution or SECESSION is the HONORABLE choice of the states.

free dixie,sw

3,296 posted on 03/04/2005 7:56:55 AM PST by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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