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Again, it is all right for a smaller majority to impose its will on a smaller minority, but when it goes from a bigger majority to a smaller one, it is no longer OK.


Sure.

I'm still confused with the context of your original remark.

Were you -- in relation to the Declaration -- equating the hypocrisy of the Founders' slave-owning with Lincoln's violent revanchist nationalism?

Is this just another instance of Tu Quoque being bandied about?

Pointing out that the "people" have a right to get rid of the "government" if they feel it is doing them "harm" doesn't quite fit with the Civil War.

Have you been following this thread at ALL?

Anyway...
Regarding the principle of nullification, Personal Liberty Laws were adopted by northern abolitionist states to foil federal fugitive slave laws. If it's OK for slaves to run away to be free of ownership and oppression, why is secession such an evil? Lysander Spooner wondered the same thing.


Btw Ninj, I'm sure Zippy appreciates your diplomatic peacemaking here.