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>What Americans Used To Know  - Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell
The ignorance of history by individuals on this site is mind-boggling. To somehow support a state or a state's rights for this or that while ignoring the human rights violations of that state is beyond contempt.

States have no rights -- only individuals do. And a state exists for the sole purpose of protecting those rights. The moment such a state repudiates that protection is the moment that state has no purpose; the individuals of said state having the moral authority to overthrow it.



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Beginning of the headline :"During the weeks following the [1860] election, [Northern newspaper] editors of all parties assumed that secession as a constitutional right was not in question . . . . On the contrary, the southern claim to a right of peaceable withdrawal was countenanced out of reverence for the natural law principle of government by consent of the governed." ~ Howard Cecil Perkins, editor, Northern ... Read More
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