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On Aug 17, 1:41 am, wrote:
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(hence, the "War of Northern Aggression" is a perfectly factual term
for the U.S. Civil War).
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Well we've found a more divisive topic than multihulls as cruising
boats. The question of State's Rights is a vexed one and was hotly
argued at the Constitutional convention where the founders punted in
full knowledge that the question would come back and bite them. Some
(Madison, Adams, etc) clearly thought that art VI did mean that the
federal rule was to be supreme and thus (says he, time warping) any
succession could only be legal with the blessing of the federal
government. Of course, there were very strong opinions on the other
side (and there was Jefferson who, typically, managed to argue both
sides) and the horrible result was the Civil War. A vast number of
words has been written on this topic and the arguments still persist
so I doubt we'll solve it here, but I'd be content to concede to
everything you wrote if you just change "perfectly factual" to
"reasonably arguable".

-- Tom.


Under the principle that "The Declaration of Independence Informs the
Constitution," our founders recognised that when the Government no longer
fit the needs of the People, it is their right to cast off that government.
I maintain that, regardless of the evil of "That Peculiar Institution,"
those Sovereign States which wished to dissolve their ties with the Federal
Government and create a new union had every right (both moral and legal) to
do so.