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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (7928)	11/30/2001 8:10:39 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Because Lincoln didn't want to? I've never found one word in the Constitution that bars secession. Had the independent nations that formed the United States known there was no way back out, there would have been no US. It seems like the South had a good case. States rights were being infringed, so the "contract", if you want to call it so, was breached by the Feds anyway. By the 1860's there was enough property around that there could have been two countries. We started a war with Mexico, so we could steal the southwest, why not start a war with Canada? Czechoslovakia must have had precisely this problem when it split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Solution? Military installations in Slovakia became Slovak property and in the Czech Republic Czech property. Czechoslovia was a pretty unique situation that worked out very well. There was never any conflicts between Bohemia and Slovakia; they just wanted to be rid of the Hungarian empire. The Slavic folks in Cleveland and Pittsburgh figured out the merger as a way of getting political leverage for the formation post WWI. And it appears that the cultures in the region continued to see themselves as separate from each other through the subsequent decades. I've talked to a couple of my aunts that while born in the US, their parents were born in either the Czech Republic or Slovakia and it's still ingrained that they were always separate regions, and we didn't talk to those people... It's been over a hundred years since they each branch immigrated and they still talk about those people. LOL. jttmab