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Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Why, Mr. Dickinson, I’m surprised at you! You should know that rebellion is always legal in the first person – such as ‘our’ rebellion. It is only in the third person – ‘their’ rebellion – that it is illegal.
Originally posted by trekwebmaster
You'd better be careful and not say anything close to trying to incite a revolution.
Originally posted by trekwebmaster
If a people of the state do not agree with a government, it secedes, it doesn't revolt. You'd better be careful and not say anything close to trying to incite a revolution.
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
the answer is clear. If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.
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while Lincoln and much of his cabinet thought and gave lip-service to the idea that legal secession was impossible, and for that reason often refused to recognize states as actually having "seceded" (done the impossible), they certainly acted toward those states as though real secessions had in fact occurred, both by taking Constitutional rights away from the seceded states, and (Lincoln excepted, since he was dead) by making them go through a readmittance procedure following the Civil War.
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
The 2nd amendment does not give you the right to rebellion...that is a very distorted view of it.
If you rebel against the Government, you will be a traitor as defined by the Constitution...that is just fact. If you overthrow the government by means of rebellion...the Constitution is then null and void.
I could get into details of the crazy talk of internet revolutionaries...like who are the targets? And what is put into place after the rebellion? What are you fighting for? But I have learned in the past that internet revolutionaries don't want to talk about that...