To: Ditto
There is a right to revolution given us by God. The Constitution gives no right to unilateral secession and it never did. It has other remedies for dissatisfaction as I mentioned in my earlier post.
Thats your opinion. The Constitution says NOTHING about secession being prohibited and when the Constitution says nothing about a power being prohibited then that power is reserved to the States or the people respectively. You simply stating the opposite in no way convinces me of your position.
Do you really think men like Washington, Madison, Hamilton and Jay spent those months in Philadelphia.........They understood people and understood government.
Do you really think that they just spent years fighting for their right of self-determination and explaining consent of the governed to the world just to deny it to their own descendants? I think not.
To: Arkinsaw
Do you really think that they just spent years fighting for their right of self-determination and explaining consent of the governed to the world just to deny it to their own descendants? I think not. And how does unilateral secession lead to anything but anarchy, which is what those men were trying to prevent with the Constitution. It provided all the framework for self-determination and to assure that the 'governed" had the final say.
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07/09/2003 3:02:12 PM PDT by
Ditto
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