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> "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who
>inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government,
>they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their
>revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
> --A. Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Nice try, C.G., and lofty political rhetoric, but not law. In fact, Lincoln was immediately to put ther full weight of the United States against some people who triedto exercise that "right," which he always denied existed in law. It is illegal under a whole bunch of laws to actively try to overthrow the government, as opposed to abstractly advocate its overthrow. jks
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>On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> > >I thought there was a so-called right of revolution in the US :)
> >
> > Not in law.
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> > What do our
> > >resident legal beagles think of this turn of events?
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> > What do you think we think? It sucks.
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> > The statement of the law in the article is accurate. You an advocate
>illegal
> > acts in the abstract. You can constitutionally ber punished if you
>conspire
> > to overthrow the government.
> >
> > jks
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