[CGVet58]

"...What if the concept of “the consent of the governed” was finally rendered moot at Appomattox in 1865?..."

Would that also include consent of the chattel which the side trumpeting this "consent of the governed" meme never granted?

Orwell - 1984 - Up is down - democrat is liberal - wrong is Right.

And fighting to keep and extend slavery becomes a "states rights" issue... and a parody.

[sam_paine]

And fighting to keep and extend slavery becomes a "states rights" issue... and a parody.

It doesn't matter if the "War between the States" was over Slavery, States Rights, or Gay rights...the end result is that the Constitutional Republic ended on 1865 and a Federal leviathan took over. Permanently.