To: BroJoeK
First of all, there is no "natural right" to break a compact "at pleasure" and then declare war on your previous country. Yes, that would be a "right of rebellion", but rebellion is only lawful if it wins. And rebellion is only morally justified when faced with intollerable opression and all pleas and petitions for relief have been ignored.
Searching the historical record, I can see absolutly no evidence of intollerable opression by the general government upon the southern states prior to secession.
282 posted on
03/01/2013 12:05:04 PM PST by
Ditto
To: Ditto
And thus was the AmRevWar unjustified.
British rule may’ve denied some rights for their citizens, but it’s hard to call the overall climate “intolerable” or “oppressive” as many colonials agreed. They were hardly the level of even emperors of China.
But better they stood up before it might get truly bad.
283 posted on
03/01/2013 4:16:20 PM PST by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Ditto
_Ditto_:
"And rebellion is only morally justified when faced with intollerable opression and all pleas and petitions for relief have been ignored." Thanks, that's a key difference between the Founders' Declaration of Independence and slave-holders' Reasons for Secession.
287 posted on
03/02/2013 4:02:58 AM PST by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
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