[lbo-talk] WTF??? 6 US states reclaim sovereignty - 10thAmendment

[Dennis Perrin]

> One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously 
> called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of  constitutional 
> guarantees of state sovereignty. It settled the issue  of secession, 
> making it possible for the federal government to  increasingly run 
> roughshod over Ninth and 10th Amendment guarantees.  A civil war, by the 
> way, is a struggle where two or more parties try  to take over the central 
> government. Confederate President Jefferson  Davis no more wanted to take 
> over Washington, D.C., than George  Washington wanted to take over London. 
> Both wars are more properly  described as wars of independence.

As odious as the Confederacy was, they had every right to secession. But 
there was simply no way that the expanding federal government would allow 
that, especially with thoughts of further imperial conquest. Losing the 
southern states would've been a huge blow to that plan. And even if the 
south broke away, I'm sure war or wars with the north would've happened 
sooner or later.

Dennis