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Should Secession be an option?
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<blockquote data-quote="SoldierOfTheKing" data-source="post: 62022914" data-attributes="member: 136506"><p>Are you referring to the founders of the US or of the Confederacy? Perhaps you're talking about the Northern factory owners, who had no qualms making their workers, including women and children, toil twelve hours a day in unhealthful and dangerous conditions for wages that were barely sufficient keep them alive. The majority of Southerners didn't own any slaves.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the point I was making is that if you believe, as the Declaration of Independence states, that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, it's hard to make the case that the Southern states didn't have the right to independence if they wanted it. The very thing that the US claimed for itself eighty years prior, it denied South. Not only that, but it waged one of the bloodiest wars in history to do so. If the Union took the lives of over 600,000 of its own citizens to preserve, what does that say about its nature?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoldierOfTheKing, post: 62022914, member: 136506"] Are you referring to the founders of the US or of the Confederacy? Perhaps you're talking about the Northern factory owners, who had no qualms making their workers, including women and children, toil twelve hours a day in unhealthful and dangerous conditions for wages that were barely sufficient keep them alive. The majority of Southerners didn't own any slaves. Anyway, the point I was making is that if you believe, as the Declaration of Independence states, that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, it's hard to make the case that the Southern states didn't have the right to independence if they wanted it. The very thing that the US claimed for itself eighty years prior, it denied South. Not only that, but it waged one of the bloodiest wars in history to do so. If the Union took the lives of over 600,000 of its own citizens to preserve, what does that say about its nature? [/QUOTE]
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