tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post6165921779481892312..comments2023-08-24T07:27:12.657-07:00Comments on Contra O'Reilly: On the Common Held Notion that Secession Equates to Treason Will "take no prisoners" Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-42858462544948026732014-05-18T19:52:18.668-07:002014-05-18T19:52:18.668-07:00So, the people of New Jersey would have to get per...So, the people of New Jersey would have to get permission from the representatives of Ohio, Virginia, etc., the Supreme Court (and Marshall actually said that a state "cannot be called at the bar of the federal court"), and a dictatorial President like Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, or Nixon prior to being able to secede? I don't know, BB, I don't even think that consolidationists such as Hamilton, Clay, or Webster ever thought that. Will "take no prisoners" Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-22607140934210343972014-05-18T18:36:52.325-07:002014-05-18T18:36:52.325-07:00One wonders if unilateral secession, that is witho...One wonders if unilateral secession, that is without the sanction of the three US branches of government, might be considered as 'rebellion' [again]<br />and hence an act of war: if against the US, that could be construed as treason. It would seem so, according to James Madison:<br />"I return my thanks for the copy of your late very powerful Speech in the Senate of the United S. It crushes "nullification" and must hasten the abandonment of "Secession". But this dodges the blow by confounding the claim to secede at will, with the right of seceding from intolerable oppression. The former answers itself, being a violation, without cause, of a faith solemnly pledged. The latter is another name only for revolution, about which there is no theoretic controversy" BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.com