[Inyo-Mono]

The South fought ONLY to preserve slavery. The leaders ALL admitted it. Only the latter day Defenders of Slaverocracy try and pretend that some noble purpose activated them when it was the most sordid of causes. Watching the clownish denials of the DSs is a very amusing activity.

Suppose that a dozen years from now the Federal Government declares that all guns are illegal and to be turned in. Then say the State of Texas declares that to be unconstitutional and secedes from the Union in order to keep the right to keep and bear arms. The Feds then invade Texas to force them to stay in the Union as the citizens of the state take up arms against the Feds in order to defend their homes and rights.

In your opinion, who would be in the right, Texans or the Feds?

[Heyworth]

Suppose that a dozen years from now the Federal Government declares that all guns are illegal and to be turned in. Then say the State of Texas declares that to be unconstitutional and secedes from the Union in order to keep the right to keep and bear arms.

For your analogy to be remotely applicable, you'd have to show where the Federal Government declared slavery illegal before South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1860.

[archy]

Suppose that a dozen years from now the Federal Government declares that all guns are illegal and to be turned in. Then say the State of Texas declares that to be unconstitutional and secedes from the Union in order to keep the right to keep and bear arms. The Feds then invade Texas to force them to stay in the Union as the citizens of the state take up arms against the Feds in order to defend their homes and rights.

In your opinion, who would be in the right, Texans or the Feds?

Then there would be no federal government. Such an abrogation of a constitutional right would render not only one section of the document as corrupt, but the entire body; that's a basic tenet of contract and treaty law. Accordingly, the ENTIRE U.S. Constitution would be null and void- and there would be no government for the United States.

Texas would most probably revert to an independent Texas Republic. And would not be fooled a second time around.