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To: GoldStandard
Why don’t you tell us how the Founders were in the right to secede from Britain but not the south during that time?

The founders didn't "secede" - they rebelled. They succeeded in their rebellion where the south did not.

They were both under the rule of a tyrant and wanted no part of it.

Nonsense.
111 posted on 10/06/2009 7:02:37 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr; GoldStandard
“Why don’t you tell us how the Founders were in the right to secede from Britain but not the south during that time?

The founders didn’t “secede” - they rebelled. They succeeded in their rebellion where the south did not.”

That’s laughable! Didn’t they want a Government by their own choosing?
“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” —Thomas Jefferson

He, Thomas Jefferson, also wrote a letter to James Madison containing the following: “Determined…to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government…in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.”

113 posted on 10/06/2009 7:58:53 PM PDT by Idabilly
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To: rockrr
The founders didn't "secede"

"Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio) is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity."

They seceded from British and King George III's rule.

115 posted on 10/06/2009 11:00:21 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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