[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

DiLorenzo argues that President Lincoln invaded the secessionist South in order to hold on to the tariff revenues with which to subsidize Northern industry and build an American Empire.

I always thought that war with the secessionist South started because the South seceded.

[billbears]

Dixie ping!!

[rdb3]

Let me check again. Yep. I was right. The year is 2002.

I knew it was the 21^st century. I think it would be nice once everybody finally got the hell out of the 19^th!

No mercy.
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[patent]

>>>>>I always thought that war with the secessionist South started because the South seceded.

And shot at people, who shot back, and then came a callin' whereupon there was more shootin.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Shhhhhh......

You're not supposed to point out that out. Don't mention that the first rounds fired at Ft. Sumter were Confederate either, or that several states seceded even before Lincoln was inaugurated (so how was he able to do all those evil things justifying it if he wasn't even in office, eh?).

[Publius6961]

I always thought that war with the secessionist South started because the South seceded.

Hmmmmmmm. Interesting detour.

Actually the war of Northern aggression started because someone in Dixie picked up the phone and called Washington and said “We quit!”

Wait. If someone had not ordered the phone the week before then no one would have been able to call Washington and trigger hostilities.

So there you have it, the definitive conclusion: The telephone installer caused the Civil War.

[Pelham]

I always thought that war with the secessionist South started because the South seceded

That sounds about right. Same as when some rebel colonies seceded from the British Empire 85 years earlier and got themselves a war.

[Jael]

You mean they couldn't decide for themselves what to do?

But what happens if government uses its power to infringe upon or even destroy people's rights, as our Founders feared it might do? As the Declaration points out, in that case it is the right of the people to alter or abolish their government and to institute new government that would be more likely to protect their rights. What Jefferson was referring to was peaceful change through political action as well as, in extreme cases, violent change through armed revolution.

The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

[fightu4it]

I always thought that war with the secessionist South started because the South seceded.

I don't know about other States but I have looked at my State's (Indiana) Monument For Statehood, the request, and the Enabiling Act, the grant, and there is no language preventing Indiana from leaving the Union at any time.