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You mentioned in another thread about secession, that it is denied. I agree, but how WOULD a people throw off an oppressive government if it were disallowed? :?: They could do it anyway right and be justified? You would think the constitution would have some clause allowing this based on reasonable circumstances.

I can understand there would be a problem if the cause for justification were light, but say some cause similiar to French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, or the American Revolution. Now, I doubt somethign like that would occure again, but there could very well be a very corrupt/bad government in the future. Wouldn't the people/states be screwed?
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Do you think the American Revolution was legal? Of course not; Parliament and the King considered it high treason. Secession is not illegal, but if anyone ever tried to violate the Constitution and set himself up as dictator in this country, I would be the first up to revolt and restore the Constitution. If a people as a whole are being oppressed that badly then they need to talk to an arms dealer, not a lawyer. Violent revolution is never a legal action. Doesn't make it always wrong, but it is always illegal, at least insofar as the government being revolted against is concerned.
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Revolution is legal if and only if you win.
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"Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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That is what I was thinking. It can be justified, but illegal at the same time. THe law doesn't make something right or wrong in and of itself.
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