re: The Right of Secession... History forgotten...

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There was never a right to secession

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“Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,” the former written by Madison and the latter by Jefferson. In the course of this battle, Jefferson privately expressed the belief that if no other remedy proved effective in protecting free speech, then secession might have to be considered. At first, he rejected secession when it was suggested to him in 1798, but then he changed his mind. On August 23, 1799, he expressed to Madison his hope that all would be well. “Before it shall be too late,” he mused, it seemed likely to him that the “good sense of the American people” would “rally with us round the true principles of our federal compact.” But, he continued, “were we to be disappointed in this,” then he and Madison and like-minded people should stand “determined … to sever ourselves from the union we so much value, rather than give up the rights of self-government.”

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