I'm not alleging anything. I'm complaining loudly that the Josh Eboch, the author, and the Tenth Amendment Center, are arguing that the Declaration of Independence justified southern secession. This demeans and obfuscates the principles in that great document, a document that is central and essential to our ongoing struggles for liberty. If we, as conservatives, can't get these principles correct, what hope is there for this country? This country survives or parishes based on those principles. We either pledge our lives, fortunes and sacred honor, or all is lost.
What was it's purpose? As John Adams plainly said: " With these qualifications, we may admit the same right as vested in the people of every state in the Union, with reference to the General Government, which was exercised by the people of the United Colonies, with reference to the Supreme head of the British empire, of which they formed a part - and under these limitations, have the people of each state in the Union a right to secede from the confederated Union itself."
"Thus stands the RIGHT. But the indissoluble link of union between the people of the several states of this confederated nation, is after all, not in the right, but in the heart." Lincoln took a blow torch to that - didn't he?
You demean this thread and I hope I never get on board an aircraft with you at the controls...