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There are some things that have been said or suggested that aren't quite correct which one should know if you really want to understand the reason for and the value of, the structure of the Senate as it is. First, one can't really understand the nature of our current constitution without understa...

[quote] Current Supreme Court precedent, in Texas v. White, holds that the states cannot secede from the union by an act of the state. More recently, in 2006, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated, "If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right ...

[quote]They would've kept the Articles of Confederation.[/quote] This. This exactly. [link=(https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/1778-articles-of-confederation)]Articles of Confederation[/link] It's not like no one at the time foresaw what was going to happen. Virtually everything complai...

[quote] If you don’t have a warrant or any reason to hide your ID, providing identification shouldn't be an issue. [/quote] So no problem making someone prove their papers are in order. Welcome to the "land of the free..." And most people are okay with that, "and the home of the brave". Th...

[quote]... He needs to be primaried.[/quote] He was. There were two very good alternatives in the Nov. 3 primary. Dustin Murphy (Republican) and Aaron Sigler (Libertarian). Both were strongly small government, pro-liberty. Cassidy got 59.3%, Murphy 1.9%, and Sigler 0.5%. There's the prob...

[quote]Is this from a book you’re reading? If so, I’d love to acquire it.[/quote] This is from a collection of Madison's writings in several volumes. I don't have any of them as actual books, but you can find the reference and a copy in various formats at [link=(https://oll.libertyfund.org/ti...

In response to the Alien and Sedition acts, a blatant attempt to shut down criticisms of the efforts by the Hamiltonians to grab power, the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky passed resolutions (the Va and Ky resolves) condemning them and explaining how they were unconstitutional, violations of t...

It seems to me the only "twisting and wordsmithin'" is you trying to evade your mis-characterization of S.C.'s secession statement as a declaration of war. If you want to claim I'm inconsistent in anything I've said, or dispute any of it with actual evidence, then point to a specific statement I'...

[quote] Somehow you missed this one from page 1 [/quote] No, I didn't miss it. There was neither a link nor a reference. You simply posted something as a quote. As I previously said, anyone can post anything they want as a quote. It can be accurate, completely fraudulent (as was my quote ...

[quote] There are multiple references, in this thread alone from official secession declarations and statements from Confederacy (D) leaders about the war. [/quote] There have been four links in this thread (not including the one on this page): page 3 Tariff of Abominations page 4 How a...