Posted on 04/02/2021 9:04:55 AM PDT by gattaca
So the states can form their own Air Force and Marine Corp because neither of these is mentioned in the Constitution.
Your beloved Confederacy was a Socialst tyrany that oppressed it’s member states. It needed to die, and Sherman did the job, but not soon enough.
South Carolina left the union.
They told DC to get off their land.
This is a political argument.
DC can do it via the militia of the states that belong.
Not really since independence wasn't in the cards for about one-third the population. Rebellion is defined as " open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government". That's a very accurate description of the Southern attempt.
Hardly.
Probably not a coincidence that OG commie Karl Marx was an ardent supporter of the 1860 episode.
You really expected him to support a revolution meant in no small part to preserve slavery? Really?
I do not disagree that conditions in the south were wrong,
but I do disagree with the perception that DC had the authority to force states to stay in the union.
Well there was an armed rebellion going on. But in several cases over the course of the war the Supreme Court did identify the southern actions as a rebellion. And of course after the war there was the Texas v. White decision.
The US Constitution had no provision for that, therefore it was left to the states to do just that if they wished.
So you're saying that the Constitution allows a state or states to use it to punish or harm the interests of the other states? I'd love to see you quote where.
The “War of Northern Aggression” is the applicable term.
LOL! I'll bet you call World War II the 'War of Polish Aggression' too.
You say “all”?
Appomattox did not tidy things up. It stood the U.S. Constitution on its head.
Read the million page Federal Register - or is it two million pages now? - and then come back on this board and tell us the 9th and 10th amendments are intact, and there is no federal overreach.
The difference, of course, being that the Founding Fathers won their rebellion and the Southerners lost theirs. I guess they just didn't want it hard enough, huh?
Why would I talk about WWII?
Heck the U.S. can't even have an Air Force or a Space Force because the Constitution doesn't explicitly allow them. Or NASA. Or an air traffic control system. Or a Department of State. Or so they would have us believe.
The South was in rebellion, but only in the sense of the original, legitimate American Revolution.
Your gratuitous inclusion of the words “usually unsuccessful” does not change anything.
Did the poles demand Hitler to leave and he refused?
Because calling the the War of Polish Aggression make about as much sense as calling it the War of Northern Aggression. In both cases it was the other side that was the aggressor.
Which, if memory serves, resulted in a war. Which, fortunately, the Founding Fathers one. Unlike your rebel leadership.
You just posted it.
The Founders lost.
They escaped liberalism and set up liberty hoping it would multiply.
Liberals came in and killed it.
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