On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
> > "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
>
> Then he led a war against the South for trying to dismember it,
> suspended habeas corpus, etc. etc.
>
> Doug
Still, it's nice sentiment. Would any of the current leaders in Abe's party have the balls to use this kind of Jeffersonian rhetoric?
Miles