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To: sanchmo

Nope. It can be argued (and was actually in West Point text books before the Civil War) that the several States had the right to secede from the Union.
Lincoln mangled the Constituion to save the Union and created the Imperial Federal Government in the process.


11 posted on 08/07/2007 12:32:48 PM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: Little Ray

We’re lucky he did.


13 posted on 08/07/2007 12:36:07 PM PDT by sanchmo
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To: Little Ray; jas3
Little Ray:
It can be argued (and was actually in West Point text books before the Civil War) ...

jas2:
3.8 million people died in the Civil War along with States Rights.

Agreed, except that the United States has not yet had a civil war, with two factions fighting for control of the same government.  But history is (re)written by the victors.  In my Mother's memory, no history textbook in the South referred to the War Between The States (or, the War of Northern Aggression) as a civil war.

And I remember when no Republican could be elected dogcatcher in the South because of "reconstruction."

46 posted on 08/07/2007 10:08:56 PM PDT by Celtman (It's never right to do wrong to do right.)
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To: Little Ray

I never understood how if their willing entry was required in the first place, how it was viewed as impossible for the people of a state to revoke that.


51 posted on 08/09/2007 9:45:55 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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