Posted on 07/15/2011 11:30:51 AM PDT by CalinectesSapidus
Just because everybody says something is right, doesn’t make it right. The Supreme Court has been wrong n so many cases that it is laughable to cite them as supreme anything (see Dred Scott, Roe v. Wade, Wickard v. Filburn, Kelo v. City of New London, etc.)
Just because slave masters and their apologists claim the cotton States had the "right" to secede, that doesn't make it so.
And of course, just because slave owners and their sympathizers claim West Virginia had no right to secede from Virginia (an interesting contradiction, since they think Virginia had the right to secede to begin with) that doesn't make it so, either.
But in fact, the people of West Virginia acted according to the US Constitution. The people of Virginia didn't. Saying they didn't doesn't make it right, either.
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