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Jim C.
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Freedom and Federalism

- Tom DiLorenzo -

Like Jason of horror movie fame, DiLorenzo has returned from the grave to prowl the otherwise noble abode of 24HR GOLD -- and his groupies applaud his return.

The idea of secession which DiLorenzo advocates based on the ideas of Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers is not at fault. But for states to use it as a means of maintaining (and expanding) a slave system as the Southern States did is absurd and contradictory. Secession from the Government of the United States is a valid act if said government blantantly violates individual rights -- NOT if that secession is a means for a state or states to initiate or continue to violate the rights of individuals within their boundaries.

Jason is a fictional character. Unfortunately DiLorenzo is not.

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Beginning of the headline :The idea of states' rights is most closely associated with the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and his political heirs. Jefferson himself never entertained the idea that "states have rights," as some of the less educated critics of the idea have claimed. Of course "states" don't have rights. The essence of Jefferson's idea is that if the people are to be the masters rather than the servants of their own government, then they must have some vehicle with which to control that government. That vehicle, in the Jeffersonian tradition, is political... Read More

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