[WhiskeyPapa]

as for myself I will look to the Founders and their beliefs for guidance

Good idea.

"In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existance."

--George Washington, 9/17/87

Walt

[billbears]

Better idea

If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."--Thomas Jefferson 1801

[billbears]

"The principles of our Revolution [of 1776] point to the remedy – a separation,.....the people of the East cannot reconcile their habits, views, and interests with those of the South and West."

---Timothy Pickering, former chief of staff to George Washington,Massachusetts, 1803