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Give Me Posterity - A new biography of Patrick Henry reveals a complicated but exemplary American.
City Journal ^
| 17 February 2012
| Ryan L. Cole
Posted on 02/22/2012 6:35:14 PM PST by neverdem
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Here is a logical follow on:
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02/23/2012 6:36:35 AM PST
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Jacquerie
(No court will save us from ourselves.)
To: Jacquerie
As for 1861,
Article I Section 10: “No state shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance . . . “
Article I Section 8, Congress is empowered to . . . “suppress insurrections.”
The southern states were no longer under the authority of the US. There was no insurrection. Until nearly the end of the war the violence was all on Confederate soil.
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02/23/2012 4:47:22 PM PST
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freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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