I wonder if any of these other folks would be guilty of "treason", too?
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Feb 23, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:
> Doesn't Texas maintain her right to secede in her constitution?
> Where's the Texan in this group?
>
> David Kiracofe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I remember reading this
> essay some time ago and agree with Kevin that
> the question of perpetual union was not a settled one in 1861. Looking
> at everything from the Dopctinres of 1798 to the New England
> Federalists
> in the 1805-1814 period to the Nullifiers in 1832 and the
> Massachusetts
> "personal liberty laws" in the 1850s makes it clear that Lincoln's
> notion that the states were truly subsumed into one whole was not a
> universally held one. I always thought it was a telling choice on the
> part of the founders to depart from the assertion made in the Articles
> of Confederation which aimed at a "perpetual union" -- the founders
> were
> content to aspire merely to a "more perfect union." Lincoln's
> assertion strikes me as one of his great pieces of political
> innovation
> on a par with the new formulations in the Gettysburg Address. Of
> course
> in the end, Lincoln and his armies settled the matter of secession
> with
> military victory (and then there was a legal decision in, I think ,
> 1867
> that finally removed the legal possibility of secession.)
>
>
> The essay is "The Concept of a Perpetual Union," by Kenneth M.
> Stampp, published in The Journal of American History, Vol. 65,
> No. 1. (Jun., 1978), pp. 5-33. It is available readily via
> JSTOR, or in any good academic library.
>
>
>
> David Kiracofe
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