Greetings Cosmic Americans!
I have been been dutifully at my post scouring Youtube for interesting videos worthy of sharing here. I came across this one portraying a Robert E. Lee reenactor giving his take on allegiance to his "country" of Virginia and how the founders formed a union of "countries" under the Constitution.
I will have to give props to the reenactor - he has the look down. But his understanding of the formation of a union of sovereign countries seems a little more than problematic. Like Lincoln, many other folks understood that the formation of a union of former colonies made one country of constituent parts - and thus the formation of the Union created states...bound by allegiance to an indissoluble nation. What do you think?
Peace,
Keith
I loved the European union comparison. Yikes, it shows how desperate they are to legitimate secession. Anything to evade the real cause: the protection of slavery.
ReplyDeleteThey also neglect the obvious problem of states created out of land purchased or conquered by the United States after 1787. Arkansas was clearly not a "country" when it became part of the U.S. Nor was it a "country" when it was admitted as a state. The federal government purchased the land that became Arkansas using common funds from all parts of the Union.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing that out Pat - so this mean that only four Confederate states were part of the original 13 "countries" - Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Virginia.
ReplyDeleteDo you drink a lot of coffee?
ReplyDelete