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To: DangerZone
Nothing is more un-American than secession..

Tell that to the my ancestors when they seceded from Great Britain.

Tell that to the framers when 9 states seceded from 13 without consent.

Tell that to 9 million Americans that met in convention and seceded in 1861.

Tell that to 300,000,000 million Americans who never delegated their sovereignty away.

304 posted on 04/22/2009 6:34:08 PM PDT by 4CJ (Annoy a liberal, honour Christians and our gallant Confederate dead)
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To: 4CJ
“Tell that to the my ancestors when they seceded from Great Britain.”

I'm sure you know who George Tucker was.For those that don't know Mr. Tucker was a professor of law at the University of William and Mary and he like William Rawle would agree on the issue of secession...The following is what Mr. Tucker said....

“The federal government, then, appears to be the organ through which the united republics communicate with foreign nations and with each other. Their submission to its operation is voluntary: its councils, its engagements, its authority are theirs, modified, and united. Its sovereignty is an emanation from theirs, not a flame by which they have been consumed, nor a vortex in which they are swallowed up. Each is still a perfect state, still sovereign, still independent, and still capable, should the situation require, to resume the exercise of its functions as such in the most unlimited extent. (Tucker, editor, Blackstone’s Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States, Volume 1, Philadelphia: William Birch and Abraham Small, 1803, Appendix: Note D, Section 3:IV

372 posted on 04/25/2009 8:06:24 PM PDT by Idabilly
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