No rule of law, huh? I thought not.
The same one that allowed the U.S. to keep everything in the colonies after they took it from Great Britain. But I suppose you would argue that we should give that back, too.
That was called the Treaty of Paris, agreed to by both sides. The proper term for what the South did was grand theft.
I agree. The South did not steal it, they assumed possession. (See above.)
So if I get mugged in the near future, the mugger is not stealing my wallet and watch but merely assuming posession?
“So if I get mugged in the near future, the mugger is not stealing my wallet and watch but merely assuming posession?”
Well, let’s say we were neighbors and I was letting you use my lawnmower but we had a falling out. Yet one day you come over to take the mower because I had let you use it before, and I stopped you. You may call that a mugging but I would call it protecting my property. But of course I use common sense. You would use something other than common sense and I would attack you. Then you would whine about how we had an agreement — unless you were dead.