Plan B is always, "How do I get out of this?" Whatever we do, we have a sub-conscious plan or a reflex to protect ourselves from unexpected, undesirable consequences. Sometimes, we commit to something, usually an apparent good, and because it is good, fail to take into consideration how to escape from the commitment if something goes wrong. I suppose that's why we have divorces.
When the colonies agreed to form a federation, all the benefits were quite apparent. They sought to ensure that these benefits were protected in a constitution guaranteeing certain rights and specifying certain responsibilities that each would have. They seem to have overlooked an "escape hatch". I don't remember anything which stated that each state would be bound to the union in perpetuity but there was no mention either of a way to withdraw.
Civil wars are generally wars between the people and the ruling political entity. Our "civil war" was among political entities, all sovereign in their own way. Did the southern states have a right to secede from the union? In the absence of any agreement among the states that the union was "forever", I believe they did. This war is an example of what I believe the second amendment was intended for, and that is for the states to protect themselves, whatever their motives, from an oppressive central government. Today, with the powerful military might of the federal government, states could not have militias strong enough to resist them. When the federal government turns its guns upon its own people, that is not "civil war", that is oppression.
The possibility of our federal government being hi-jacked by powers even worse than we have now, demands a legal way for states to opt out if that should happen. Some iron-clad, legal escape hatch should be provided which the remaining states would have to honor in order to prevent armed conflict.
What do you think, or do you?
When the colonies agreed to form a federation, all the benefits were quite apparent. They sought to ensure that these benefits were protected in a constitution guaranteeing certain rights and specifying certain responsibilities that each would have. They seem to have overlooked an "escape hatch". I don't remember anything which stated that each state would be bound to the union in perpetuity but there was no mention either of a way to withdraw.
Civil wars are generally wars between the people and the ruling political entity. Our "civil war" was among political entities, all sovereign in their own way. Did the southern states have a right to secede from the union? In the absence of any agreement among the states that the union was "forever", I believe they did. This war is an example of what I believe the second amendment was intended for, and that is for the states to protect themselves, whatever their motives, from an oppressive central government. Today, with the powerful military might of the federal government, states could not have militias strong enough to resist them. When the federal government turns its guns upon its own people, that is not "civil war", that is oppression.
The possibility of our federal government being hi-jacked by powers even worse than we have now, demands a legal way for states to opt out if that should happen. Some iron-clad, legal escape hatch should be provided which the remaining states would have to honor in order to prevent armed conflict.
What do you think, or do you?
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