Monday, August 20th, 2012

If It Was Not Granted Then it Was Reserved - Why The Lincolnistas Are Wrong

Topics: Bill of Rights, Constitution, Declaration, kevin gutzman, lincoln, Secession, Tenth Amendment

Mandeville, LA - Noah Millman posts at the American Conservative Magazine in part: "If the secessionist cause is to be justified in the Declaration’s terms, it must make one of two claims. Either there are no “political bands” of note to dissolve – the Union is a mere compact among sovereign entities, that any party may depart from at will. Or, if those bands are granted to exist, the election of Abraham Lincoln, whose party was committed to preventing the spread of sl….Continue