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To: Luis Gonzalez
The people of the United States paid $5 million in 1821 to purchase Florida because Georgia wanted to control the Seminole Indians.
Forty years later they BOTH want to secede without concern about the fact that it would remain to the people of a diminished nation to foot the bill?

Did Georgia didn't FORCE the federal government to make the purchase?

No?

Then tough noogies to the federal government for speculating Georgia and Florida would want to remain in the union after its Unconstitutional actions.

99 posted on 02/22/2006 8:16:29 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a ~legal entity~, nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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To: MamaTexan

There were NO "unconstitutional actions" taken by the fedgov against the South. NOT one. But you don't like facts.


104 posted on 02/22/2006 8:28:12 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: MamaTexan
Then tough noogies to the federal government for speculating Georgia and Florida would want to remain in the union after its Unconstitutional actions.

What unconstitutional action caused Georgia and Florida to leave the Union?

128 posted on 02/22/2006 10:41:39 AM PST by Ditto
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To: MamaTexan
"Did Georgia didn't FORCE the federal government to make the purchase?"

Let's see...Andrew Jackson invades Florida, creates an issue with Spain, and shoots British subjects, all in the name of the security of the State of Georgia.

I guess he could have held a bigger gun to the head of the collective States than the possibility of war with both England and Spain.

293 posted on 02/23/2006 2:31:19 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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