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tom dahlberg
What If the North Had Seceded From the South?
There is only a psychological, rather than a logical or truly moral account, of why so many Americans believe that the invasion of the South by northern troops, from 1861 to the end of “reconstruction,” discredited secession as a legally and morally legitimate escape from a government which rejects the …
The Natural Right of Secession: An American Political Philosophy
Any people whatever have a right to abolish the existing government and form a new one which suits them better. –Abraham Lincoln in Congress 1847 We neopopulists have rejected the “conservative” label because the contemporary conservative seems to be willing to accept almost any amount of change as long as …