Yes, it is. Abraham Lincoln committed a crime by declaring a war to stop the secession of the Southern States. he violated both States Rights, and Individual Rights.
“But the indissoluble link of union between the people of the several States of this confederated nation is, after all, not in the RIGHT, but in the HEART. If the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it !) when the affections of the people of these States shall be alienated from each other, when the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or collision of interests shall fester into hatred, the bonds of political association - will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies ; and far better will it be for the people of the disunited States to part in friendship with each other than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect Union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the center.” ~ John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) 6th US President
in his discourse before the New York Historical Society, in 1839
“A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a community by what is termed the 'social compact,’ and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a national government by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact.” ~ Black's Law Dictionary
Piqua Branch Bank v. Knoup, 6 Ohio St. 393. [Black's Law Dictionary, Revised Fourth Edition, 1968, p. 1176]
“[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” ~ H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
“If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.” ~ Daniel Webster (1782-1852) US Senator
June 1, 1837; Works 1:403
...and we would still have slavery too if he had not done it. Like I said, not always cut and dry. No system of law is perfect. Ours just happens to be the best one yet.
Actually, not true. Slavery was already on its way out, but that isn't relevant to the point. The point is that Lincoln used slavery as his excuse to violate the limits of power, attack States rights, and start a war to force his will on sovereign States and people.
If you are okay with that, then you have no grounds to support Trump over Biden, Harris, or any other enemy of the Constitution.
It is also apparent that you do not understand the nature of the government established by the framers of our Constitution, nor the critical importance the Constitution has in legitimacy of government.
In the case of the Constitution, it is always cut and dried. It is either delegated, or it is not.
I've heard your argument many many times and I agree with most of it. I know slavery was part of the issue and that states rights and taxes were also major parts. It was a complicated scenario, the details of which are debatable. At the end of the day we had a civil war and the union won. The confederates were pro slavery and the source of the modern day democrats. They were the deep state. They assassinated Abraham Lincoln before he could complete his job of fixing the country. They have already tried to kill trump many times. Trump will completely abolish the deep state and show the people the true history of our country and world.
Although I voted for Trump, and support much of what he is / has done, I place my faith in God, and not in man, even one like Trump.
I would also point out that only the deep state benefited from the death of State sovereignty and rights, while everyone and everything else suffered from that death, especially our Constitutional Republic.
Yes, it is. Abraham Lincoln committed a crime by declaring a war to stop the secession of the Southern States. he violated both States Rights, and Individual Rights.
“But the indissoluble link of union between the people of the several States of this confederated nation is, after all, not in the RIGHT, but in the HEART. If the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it !) when the affections of the people of these States shall be alienated from each other, when the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or collision of interests shall fester into hatred, the bonds of political association - will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies ; and far better will it be for the people of the disunited States to part in friendship with each other than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect Union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind, and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the center.” ~ John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) 6th US President in his discourse before the New York Historical Society, in 1839
“A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a community by what is termed the 'social compact,’ and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a national government by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact.” ~ Black's Law Dictionary Piqua Branch Bank v. Knoup, 6 Ohio St. 393. [Black's Law Dictionary, Revised Fourth Edition, 1968, p. 1176]
“[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” ~ H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
“If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.” ~ Daniel Webster (1782-1852) US Senator June 1, 1837; Works 1:403
...and we would still have slavery too if he had not done it. Like I said, not always cut and dry. No system of law is perfect. Ours just happens to be the best one yet.
Actually, not true. Slavery was already on its way out, but that isn't relevant to the point. The point is that Lincoln used slavery as his excuse to violate the limits of power, attack States rights, and start a war to force his will on sovereign States and people.
If you are okay with that, then you have no grounds to support Trump over Biden, Harris, or any other enemy of the Constitution.
It is also apparent that you do not understand the nature of the government established by the framers of our Constitution, nor the critical importance the Constitution has in legitimacy of government.
In the case of the Constitution, it is always cut and dried. It is either delegated, or it is not.
I've heard your argument many many times and I agree with most of it. I know slavery was part of the issue and that states rights and taxes were also major parts. It was a complicated scenario, the details of which are debatable. At the end of the day we had a civil war and the union won. The confederates were pro slavery and the source of the modern day democrats. They were the deep state. They assassinated Abraham Lincoln before he could complete his job of fixing the country. They have already tried to kill trump many times. Trump will completely abolish the deep state and show the people the true history of our country and world.
Although I voted for Trump, and support much of what he is / has done, I place my faith in God, and not in man, even one like Trump.
I would also point out that only the deep state benefited from the death of State sovereignty and rights, while everyone and everything else suffered from that death, especially our Constitutional Republic.