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Do you think the "wrong side" (i.e. the federalists) won the debate early on as to what sort of nation the United States should be and we have been paying the price since then?
It should be noted that even the relatively "federalist-lite" approach of the Federalists turned out to be too "lite" and the Fourteenth Amendment passed to secure for the nation a yet-even-more "federalist" union.
The Confederacy was anti-federalist. There government was a failure even before they lost militarily.
Our federal government is the greatest government in the world since WWII.
In my opinion, any American who advocates secession should be arrested and then shot by a firing squad.
Like how we seceded from Great Britain? Good thinking on your part.
The Federal government that ha been responsible for our booms and busts that ruin the economy? That has stuck its nose in foreign countries where it doesn't belong?
It has overstepped it's authority and makes us less safe and our degrades our lives. Technology improves it.
Do you think the "wrong side" (i.e. the federalists) won the debate early on as to what sort of nation the United States should be and we have been paying the price since then?
Our federal government is the greatest government in the world since WWII.
Would that include the federal government that has killed thousands and thousands of innocent people? And locked up innocent people because of their race? And spied on people because they didn't agree with their political position? And given billions of our hard earned tax dollars to their buddies? etc, etc.
In my opinion, any American who advocates secession should be arrested and then shot by a firing squad.
I quote from the Declaration of Independence:
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --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.
It is A SELF EVIDENT RIGHT OF HUMANITY to separate itself from any government that becomes oppressive.
Seems you learned nothing in civics. Nor American history. Nor life, about how freedom is the GOAL of legitimate government, not forced subservience.
It is A SELF EVIDENT RIGHT OF HUMANITY to separate itself from any government that becomes oppressive.
Seems you learned nothing in civics. Nor American history. Nor life, about how freedom is the GOAL of legitimate government, not forced subservience.
Against all enemies foreign and domestic
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