I LOVE Dr. Williams. If only HE were our 'first black President'
[sigh}
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Okay, now back to our regularly scheduled argument. LOL!
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at some of these comments. The colonies SECEDED from Britain. The states abolished their govt by adopting the Constitution. The people are the sovereigns (popular sovereignty) and are above the state and federal govts. The South seceded from the Union... so it wasn’t a rebellion.
If you don’t believe the South could secede then you obviously don’t believe the colonies could secede from Britain. You don’t believe in the consent of the governed. You don’t understand delegated sovereign powers — certainly not in the sense the founders and framers did (i.e. read Vattel on this subject as that is who they relied on).
It also means you give consent to unlimited submission to a national government. It means you believe in one large consolidated, all-powerful centralized government. As history has proven repeatedly these regimes fall... every single one of them.
It also means that the federal government, as the agent of the people and by extension the states, can determine the extent of the powers delegated to it. That is akin to giving your teenager instructions, rules, and a time to be home on a Friday night... but when the teenager comes home he says I have the power to interpret those things... I am the final and sole arbiter of that... And, naturally, the teenager says I could stay out past 11pm, I could drive more than 50 miles, I could drink and drive, I could speed because I’ve determined those are the powers you delegated to me.