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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...so she could unmake it as to herself only. That is, she had no power to destroy the Federal Union, but only to withdraw from it, and let it move on in its own sphere. In the exercise of her original, inherent, indivisible, and inalienable sovereignty, she merely seceded from the Union to which hej had acceded, and asked to be let alone. But she could not escape the despotic, all-devouring Lie, by which her sovereignty had been denied, and her rights denounced as "a pestilential heresy." Nay, by which she had been stripped of her character as a State, and degraded to the rank of a county. Was that the purpose for which, as a sovereign State, she entered into "the more perfect Union?" See chap. xv.. "No man," says Mr. Webster, "makes a question that the people are the source of all political power There is no other doctrine of government here." This is conceded. The people make, and the people unmake, Constitutions. This is the universally received doctrine in America. It is asserted by Calhoun as strenuously as by Webster. But the Constitution was made by the people of the several States, each acting for itself, and bound by no action but its own. Hence, as each State acceded to the compact of the Constitution, so each State may, if it choose, Secede from that compact. If the premise is true, the conclusion is conceded; and the premise has been demonstrated. In acceding to the compact of the Constitution, each State made the Union as to itself; and, in seceding therefrom, it unmakes the Union only as to itself. And it does so by virtue of its own inherent, and inalienable sovereignty. If it should be said, that the people of the several States made, but.cannot unmake, the compact of the Constitution as to themselves; it would follow that...
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Has been host of the nationally heard Mike Church Show since 1992. He has produced 7, feature length documentaries on the American Founding including The Spirit of 76 & What Lincoln Killed-EPISODE I . Mike has been a featured speaker across the country on the Founders. Mike lives in Madisonville, LA with his wife and 3 children. Dr. Brion McClanahan is the author or co-author of five books including The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers. He has written for numerous websites including The Daily Caller & LewRockwell. He received a B.A. in History from Salisbury University in 1997 and an M.A. in History from the University of South Carolina in 1999. He finished his Ph.D. in History at the University of South Carolina in 2006.
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Albert Taylor Bledsoe's Is Davis a Traitor? is, without exception, the finest book on the subject of the constitutional right of secession ever written. Its clarity and force know no equal. Its argument awaits a nationalist response still, nearly 150 years since its publication. This new edition from Mike Church and Brion McClanhan makes the book accessible for contemporary readers" --Kevin R.C. Gutzman Author of James Madison & The Making of America --Professor Kevin R.C. Gutzman
Was the United States federal government intended to be, as other governments, an eternal and self-justifying power? Was the consent of the governed at its founding a one-time thing that requires obedience for ever after to whomever may control it, who may decide for themselves the limits, if any, of their power? Was this government entitled to use any amount of force against later generations of the governed to preserve itself? Or was it intended to be a strictly limited machine, an experiment established by a Constitution that could be easily understood and enforced by the governed ? Was it to be a thing of force or a thing of reason? The first proposition was established by Lincoln with a spurious legalistic cover and has become the accepted American reality. The second proposition about the Constitution and government is irrefutably true in history and philosophy. It was maintained at great cost by the soldiers and statesmen of the South until each were quashed by force. The ablest of these Southern spokesmen was the philosopher Albert Taylor Bledsoe. Given the great rampaging beast that the government has become in our day, it is surely time to look once more at some old and forgotten truths about what America was intended to be in contrast to what it has become. --Clyde N Wilson, Professor Emeritus of University of SC History
Was the United States federal government intended to be, as other governments, an eternal and self-justifying power? Was the consent of the governed at its founding a one-time thing that requires obedience for ever after to whomever may control it, who may decide for themselves the limits, if any, of their power? Was this government entitled to use any amount of force against later generations of the governed to preserve itself? Or was it intended to be a strictly limited machine, an experiment established by a Constitution that could be easily understood and enforced by the governed ? Was it to be a thing of force or a thing of reason? The first proposition was established by Lincoln with a spurious legalistic cover and has become the accepted American reality. The second proposition about the Constitution and government is irrefutably true in history and philosophy. It was maintained at great cost by the soldiers and statesmen of the South until each were quashed by force. The ablest of these Southern spokesmen was the philosopher Albert Taylor Bledsoe. Given the great rampaging beast that the government has become in our day, it is surely time to look once more at some old and forgotten truths about what America was intended to be in contrast to what it has become. --Clyde N Wilson, Professor Emeritus of University of SC History
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230314997
- ISBN 13 9781230314990
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages82
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