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Post by Amaranth on Jul 4, 2011 10:25:17 GMT -5
The original United States of America was a confederacy and that set up the environment for the south to use the state's rights argument. If the US started as a federalist government, then there wouldn't even be such a discussion, it would be as meaningless as "county rights" or "city rights." One of many compromises that made our nation "great." Speaking of compromises, how's this? They get Texas, Florida, and Alabama. |
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Post by Oriet on Jul 4, 2011 15:14:28 GMT -5
They can keep Mississippi too.
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Post by MaybeNever on Jul 4, 2011 15:29:31 GMT -5
Astonishingly, they had those things. They wanted them. And we made them give them back.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Jul 4, 2011 18:46:16 GMT -5
Wow! They spent hundreds of dollars! They must be serious!
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Post by styphon on Jul 4, 2011 19:05:37 GMT -5
Wow! They spent hundreds of dollars! They must be serious! How much military power does hundreds of dollars buy you? An armored Cadillac Eldorado? |
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Post by rookie on Jul 4, 2011 19:12:47 GMT -5
Wow! They spent hundreds of dollars! They must be serious! How much military power does hundreds of dollars buy you? An armored Cadillac Eldorado? Buys a lot of beer for Jim Bob and his friends/drinking buddies. They'll show up with their own pick ups and guns, have no fear about that. But it the hundreds of dollars will provide incentive to show up with numbers and firepower enough to take and occupy France. |
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Post by largeham on Jul 4, 2011 19:22:03 GMT -5
Every 17th of February they celebrate Columbia Night and burn effigies of General Sherman.
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