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To: central_va
We're talking about Lincoln's quote and the asinine attempt that Lost Causer's always try to make it sound like Lincoln was supporting unilateral secession. He wasn't. He was recognizing that the right to rebellion in an inherent right in all people. And that they do have the right to rise up and rebel if they feel the circumstances warrant. But Lincoln is not saying or implying that such actions were legal. Or that they were guaranteed success. The key, as Lincoln said, was 'having the power'. The South did not have that power, and the obvious reason was that their cause was not important enough to do what it took to win.

To the Goon then, secession is by default implied legal, as the Constitution was/is (still) totally silent on the subject.

Nothing in the Constitution forbids secession. But since you brought up the concept of implied powers, then clearly implied in the Constitution is the need to gain the permission of the other states to leave.

465 posted on 06/29/2010 11:13:25 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Abraham Lincoln: For when it happened too long ago to blame on George W. Bush)
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To: Non-Sequitur
He was recognizing that the right to rebellion in an inherent right in all people.

He was for slavery before he was against it. He was for secession before he was against it. Where have we heard this kind of talk before....

476 posted on 06/29/2010 12:19:40 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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