[sam_paine]

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

What we have today is the inevitable result.

The 2nd Amendment allowed for CW-I. The next “CW” would look more like Iraq or Afghanistan. That worked out well.

[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.