[Keith]

utter horsesh*t.

Two words: supremacy clause.

Your constitution, know it before you post this kind of tripe.

And next time someone slanders Lincoln, I suggest you head back to Iraq where they would love to print this kind of crap.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Axis of Debka.

[TheDon]

DiLorenzo? We aren't still posting his garbage on FR are we? No one is buying it here, try peddling it elsewhere.

[Quix]

What did Lincoln ever do to you?

Are you still trying to sell books?

Or do you just have a corncob in the wrong place?

[warchild9]

Please, the past is the past. The present is a disintegrating Republic, and a growing number of Southerners prepared to reassert their rights to THEIR OWN COUNTRY. Accept it, one way or the other, bots.

[pierrem15]

Do, in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia...

Even Rockwell has to quote this properly. The powers of the federal government derived from the convention delegates elected by the people of each state, not chosen by the government of each state.

This means, as the SCOTUS has recently reminded everyone, that citizens of the US are DUAL citizens, being citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.

With regards to the state governments and secession, the Union is like a marriage: you can't just say, "I'm bailing" and walk out without the other party having a say.

IMHO this is the correct position, but I can also see the reasonability (if not the correctness) of the positions of Lee, Jackson and Davis. That's why the civil war was such a tragedy.