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To: Heyworth

So do you think we should have stayed a colony to the UK?


295 posted on 02/07/2006 4:10:10 PM PST by libertarianben (Looking for sanity and his hard to find cousin common sense)
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To: libertarianben
So do you think we should have stayed a colony to the UK?

No, but nor do I claim that it was legal under British law for the colonies to revolt. They won their freedom by force of arms, not legal argument.

You really seem to be having a hard time with this concept. Let me ask you this: If "any people, any time" have a constitutional right to revolt at any time, why is there a clause in the constitution talking about putting down insurrections? Surely, by your thinking, any rebellion or insurrection would be permissible under the Constitution.

297 posted on 02/07/2006 4:22:57 PM PST by Heyworth ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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