go2church said:
Here is some reading you might enjoy
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=463
Heck go over to the right and read the whole issue, it's really good.
Little wonder you think the Stars and Bars is a symbol of racism if you've been trying to glean knowledge and information from people who are infected with the very root of the racist ideology itself. Collectivism.
Well, no wonder you seem so confused. :laugh:
Certainly, there is nothing in the Constitution that in any way explicitly sanctifies secession. I call secession a constructed right. You have to interpret the Constitution in very specific ways to come up with that. In fact, you have to engage in the very sort of Constitutional activism that neo-Confederates would otherwise abhor in interpreting the Constitution.
Lincoln claimed in his First Inaugural Address [FONT="]“No state upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union.”[/FONT]
Closely examining the Articles of Confederation, Article II states,
“[FONT="]Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly
delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”
[/FONT] By the standard definition in any randomly chosen dictionary, delegated means to pass down a chain-of-command to a subordinate agent by a superior authority – in this case, the individual state is passing authority to the Federal government. To reinforce this argument, The Declaration of Independence, in part, states quite clearly,
[FONT="]“That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be,
Free and Independent States… and that as
Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do[/FONT].”
“Power to levy War?” “Contract Alliances? These words sound very much like the authority any
nation would grant itself.
Remember that the framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution very specifically designed the new government on the basis of a union of strong and independent states with a minimal Federal government solely responsible for defense and the judiciary, to avoid the pitfalls of powerful central governments such as England. In fact, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution specifically states
“[FONT="]The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.”
[/FONT] Common defence and general Welfare meant that their intention was simply to maintain a Federal army and the development of a nationwide judicial system. That was the main purpose of the Federal government – and not the mutation we have today. According to various legal interpretations, Lincoln had no more claim to bind Georgia or Alabama than it had in binding China or France to the Union. The key here is that somehow Lincoln and his supporters chose to believe that the states had magically surrendered their status as
sovereign nations as justification to wage war against the south. Lincoln’s actions clearly violated the tenth amendment to the Constitution that states,
[FONT="]“The powers not
delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”[/FONT]
Source...
So, all this talk of racism and neo confederates and warring over economic differences and slavery is basically a load of misinformation aimed at keeping the sheople quiet and secured in their stalls where the federal government can go on fleecing them without too much dissent G2C.
Mods, can we move this to the politics forum? Please. This is a fun thread.
