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To: HiTech RedNeck
walking off with Federal property and initiating their own shooting.

It wasn't federal property, it was property held as surety by one State to ensure the performance of the other States to the compact.

When the northern States failed to perform, the Notice of Secession caused the property to revert to the States that initially held it.

In actuality, it was being unlawfully occupied by federal forces, and that's why it was fired upon.

Neither of these rules has been adopted. Each State in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation then the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal and not a national Constitution.
Federalist, no. 39James Madison, 16 Jan. 1788

66 posted on 11/10/2012 1:32:42 PM PST by MamaTexan (In Propria Persona)
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To: MamaTexan

That’s kind of moot now, because there IS Federal real estate at stake today. Good luck to Texas if it grabs all those post offices, etc.


70 posted on 11/10/2012 3:00:45 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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