Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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Yes it was...and the Founders would have been hung as traitors....IF....we had lost.
The doctrine of "might makes right" is utterly ridiculous. Either the right to secession exists, as our founders put forth in the Declaration of Independence, or it does not. It doesn't only exist so long as you win a war.
It does not. And winners make the rules....always. You'd be a fool to think otherwise.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - Declaration of Independence
Yes, winners make the rules. But that doesn't mean the rules they make are correct. We were a nation born from secession, our Constitution does not prohibit secession, and our Declaration of Independence declares there is a right to secession. Just because force is used to suppress a right does not mean that that right does not exist.