The more appropriate term would be rebellion, which is an open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government.
For even Lincoln himself had delivered a speech in 1848 that declared that the people could throw off the shackles of government and reinstitute a more proper one.
Lincoln was speaking of the fundimental right of revolution. Are you back on that?
OH BOY is NS going to make up all sorts of law and such.
I don't have to. I'm not aware of any law in any society which makes rebellion or revolution legal. It is outside the bounds of law, just ask the Founding Father's. They were not under any illusions that their actions were legal, and they knew that they would have to fight.
But if he were really a conservative who belonged on this board he wouldn't be arguing.
So only southron supporters are conservatives? One has to swallow the confederate line completely or someone is a liberal? Where is that laid out?
If the mood of this country can be so outraged as to call for secession after one peaceful presidential election in 2004, how is it that Non-Sequiter and his ilk are so sure of themselves about what happened a hundred and 45 years ago?
A couple of individuals talk of secession and you call it 'the mood of the country'? What country do you live in?
Magna Cum Laude, not! Thank-you for such a humorous and self descriptive post.