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To: Non-Sequitur
Advocating secession isn't treason.

No, but many of Jefferson Davis's contemporaries claimed that actual secession was treason...and that's exactly what Davis said he was joining. Mississippi had already seceded.

210 posted on 08/28/2007 11:24:45 AM PDT by Texas Mulerider
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To: Texas Mulerider
No, but many of Jefferson Davis's contemporaries claimed that actual secession was treason...and that's exactly what Davis said he was joining. Mississippi had already seceded.

Treason agaisnt the United states is defined in the Constistution as "levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Now which one of those is Davis supposed to have done?

212 posted on 08/28/2007 11:36:28 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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