re: NPR comes to the realization that Civil War is indeed a possibility

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And the Constitution itself was only ratified because our nation was founded upon the precept that our God-endowed Natural Rights precede man-made laws. Again, the Constitution would never have been ratified by the sovereign and independent states if the states believed that ratification meant the intended Union was to exist into perpetuity.

Any claim otherwise is to display an utter ignorance of the debates that surrounded the ratification of the Constitution. It may have taken over 200 years, but can any true supporter of the principles of limited government seriously disagree with the prophetic warnings of the Anti-Federalists?

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Moreover, people need to remember that we were sort of drug kicking and screaming to the current constitution. The people involved in writing it or voting on it were largely the same people who wanted the Articles of Confederation.

These people quite obviously were very cautious about the idea of a strong federal government and sought to make it barely as strong as necessary.

Alas, from the start, leftist had other ideas.