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To: lentulusgracchus
A. So what? You in the habit of telling other countries how big an army they (don't) need?

Your Lost Cause buddies don't have problem with that. They constantly term Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops an aggressive act, forgetting that it happened over a month after the rebel regime called up their own horde.

There was no rebellion, but you knew that.

You continue to say that...and you continue to be wrong. The rebel actions meet the definition of a rebellion.

Insurrection is certified to the Congress or the President by the legislature or the governor of the affected State.

I must have missed where Article I, Section 8 said that. It just says Congress has the power for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions. It doesn't say the government needs the approval of the governor for that. Only to send troops to quell domestic violence.

Nobody in the departing States certified insurrection, for the very good reason that there was no rebellion. Entire States acting on their reserved rights and powers do not a "rebellion" make. But you knew that.

You keep telling yourself that, for all the good it does.

305 posted on 03/14/2010 8:22:29 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I must have missed where Article I, Section 8 said that. It just says Congress has the power for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions. It doesn't say the government needs the approval of the governor for that.

Try reading Article IV Section 4 for comprehension sometime:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a Republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
(Emphasis supplied for the myopically impaired.)

310 posted on 03/14/2010 8:38:35 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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