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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Nullification is not secession. Please try again.

Anyone who refers back to #1234 will see you for the charlatan you so clearly are.

But nullification?

In his letter to Daniel Webster, dated March 13, 1833, James Madison wrote:

"I return my thanks for the copy of your late very powerful speech in the Senate of the U. S. It crushes "nullification" and must hasten an abandonment of "Secession." But this dodges the blow by confounding the claim to secede at will, with the right of seceding from intolerable oppression. The former answers itself, being a violation without cause, of a faith solemnly pledged. The latter is another name only for revolution, about which there is no theoretic controversy."

My original statement is correct, and yours is a fabrication.

The framaers DEFINITELY declared on the permanence and supremacy of the Constitution. Not a single one can be quoted to support your position.

CSA apologists will tell any kind of lie.

Walt

1,241 posted on 11/30/2002 3:05:03 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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To: WhiskeyPapa
CSA apologists will tell any kind of lie.

Sorry Wlat, there's nothing for us to apologize for. The South respected the Constitution and abided by it, even suffering protectionist tariffs and internal (Yankee) improvement for years.

OTOH, it was the Yankee socialists that refused to abide by the terms of the Constitution, and by a decision of the Supreme Court.

I don't have to rely on words written 40 years after the Constitution to prove my case, nor resort to distortions and twisted mythological lies as "evidence" that secession was outlawed. Rather the mere fact that the states seceded from the Articles of Confederation - which state twice that they "be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual". Now either you can LIE that the states did not secede - meaning the Constitution is null and void, or else accede the fact that secession illegally occurred, and that the subsequent Constitution contains no provision for "perpetualness", nor any prohibition against secession.

I pity you sometimes, that you actually believe the drivel you write post.

1,245 posted on 11/30/2002 9:52:24 AM PST by 4CJ
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