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To: FLT-bird
Simple question: did Jefferson support the right of each state to secede peacefully?

No.

75 posted on 02/02/2020 12:31:58 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Yes, Jefferson most certainly did support the right of each state to peacefully secede. So did several other presidents. 3 states explicitly reserved the right to secede when they ratified the constitution. That included New York and Virginia which were the two largest and most influential states in each region. Nobody at the time said that the states could not secede or that their ratification was rendered somehow thereby defective.


78 posted on 02/02/2020 12:37:03 PM PST by FLT-bird
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