William Rawles view on Secession | Thread profile

Quote: Originally Posted by ole Cadets at WP were not there to study law, per se, but to acquire an understanding of law as it applied to the military. The real test, I suppose, would be to canvas the students who were examined on the book to determine how many came out believing secession was legal, as opposed to how many went in believing secession was legal. Ole Yes thats right, cadets swore a different oath than did the faculty, and...

Hanny, I feel much the same way about Rawle and Upshur as you do about Webster. And again, I repeat that Madison in no way, as he was considered Father of the Constitution, supported the idea of secession, so I do not consider him in any way a source that could be quoted as such to support it. Misquoted perhaps, but not truly used as support for the concept. Sincerely, Unionblue

Quote: Really?, to practice law requires you pass the bar, you may think the law an ***, but you have to practice it as taught or lose case after case. Cadets at WP were not there to study law, per se, but to acquire an understanding of law as it applied to the military. The real test, I suppose, would be to canvas the students who were examined on the book to determine how many came out believing secession was legal, as opposed to how many...

It's amazing to me how logic can start and immediately stop. We often hear the argument that secession was constitutional under the U.S. Constitution. Then the logic argument stops. If secession were constitutional, then legally, following the Civil War, states in secession were forced to continue in the United States, under the tip of a bayonet. If secession were legal, then states were forced from the time of the Civil War to remain in...

Neil your right breakups are rarely peaceful especially when one side uses force to make the other one stay with it.Good points Hanny.