Now didn't that work out well?
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that was then and proof positive that the US government will kill you
and steal your assets.

In his 1801 First Inaugural Address one of the first things Thomas
Jefferson did was to support the right of secession. "If there be any
among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican
form," the author of the Declaration of Independence said, "let them
stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of
opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

Jefferson and James Madison were the authors of the Virginia and
Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 which held that "where powers were
assumed by the national government which had not been granted by the
states, nullification is the rightful remedy," and that every state
has a right to "nullify of its own authority all assumptions of power
by others. . ." Nullification of unconstitutional federal actions was
a means of effectively seceding.

On Nov 14, 2:45 pm, GregfromBoston <[email protected]> wrote:
> "We, the people of the State of South Carolina in convention assembled, do
> declare and 
> ordain<http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/601220.html#>...
> that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States,
> under the name of 'the United States of America,' is hereby dissolved," -
> December 20, 1860
>
> Now didn't that work out well?

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