[pprimeau1976]

I guess you firmly believe that the cause of the Revolutionary War was the right of the people to drink tax free tea.

No, that wasn't the reason, but you are sidestepping. The excessive taxes were amongst a number of unjust practices by the British. Let's fast forward 80+ years to Southern secession

Your blurb from South Carolina's declaration says that the federal governments' "encroachment upon the reserved rights of the states" justified them in withdrawing. So what reserved rights were they speaking of? Wasn't the big one the right to determine for themselves whether to allow slavery? In fact, wasn't it really the only right they were concerned with?

[cowboyway]

No, that wasn't the reason, but you are sidestepping.

I'm not sidestepping. You're over simplifying.

Let's fast forward 80+ years to Southern secession

Let's do that.

Your blurb from South Carolina's declaration says that the federal governments' "encroachment upon the reserved rights of the states"

The South Carolina secession declaration specifically speaks of constitutional violations, one of which is the Tenth Amendment; states rights, or, "the reserved rights of the states".