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When Lincoln took office, the American polity was regarded as a compact between sovereign states which had created a central government as their agent, hedging it in by a doctrine of enumerated powers. Since the compact between the states was voluntary, secession was considered an option by public leaders in every section of the Union during the antebellum period.

Total BS. During the nullification crisis, the Calhoon faction in South Carolina stood alone. A Southern President, Andy Jackson, promised to lead the Army into the state and hang the ringleaders if they did not back down. Jackson had support from opinion leaders from all sections of the country. James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, sure as hell didn't think it was an option when he called unilateral secession nothing but revolution and if not done because of intolerable oppression, a violation of a "faith solemnly pledged".

The guy who wrote this bilge may be a fine philosophy professor, but he doesn’t know diddly-squat about history or the constitution.

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Total BS.

If you're out to refute all the bullsh*t in the article heading up this post, Ditto my friend, you have your work cut out for you. It's more a question of identifying what isn't BS or where to begin.

[stand watie]

and this piece of NON-sense from one of the most arrogantly ignorant of the walt brigade!

RAVE ON. you, too, serve the dixie LIBERTY cause!

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