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To: Huck
Secession is illegitimate.

Why?

321 posted on 05/14/2003 8:10:54 AM PDT by arm958
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To: arm958
Why [is secession illegitmate]?

Because it is not sanctioned by US law. The theory is not rightly deduced or inferred. It's erroneous. Anti-republican. Anti-American.

322 posted on 05/14/2003 8:16:27 AM PDT by Huck
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To: arm958
Secession is illegitimate.

Why?

"Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left."

A. Lincoln, 7/4/61

Walt

323 posted on 05/14/2003 8:18:19 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa (Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
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