Hmmm, me thinks I spent too much time reading the conclusion of their (the insurgents) suicide pact: "----And for 
the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to 
each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

Too bad the "Secessionist States" didn't take a hard look there to -- perhaps they might have cut a "deal".

Me thinks, Mr. Lincoln made the "D of I" irrelevant (to the Right of the People to alter abolish it) and not the 
lowly likes of me and Mr. Booth got really, really angry.

Power is that what you achieve in practice and the 82nd Airborne doesn't take its "breakfast" in Texas. Governor 
Wallace could speak to that (deployment of the "well regulated") if he were still with us.

Any discussion about concepts of "modern" secession should be framed, in practice or theory, around the orderly 
progression of grievances as provided for by the Constitution -- or not if we persist in being poor students.

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