Salon.com News | Long live secession!
Salon.com News | Long live secession!: "What you will not hear is that secessionism is as old as the states themselves, that it was not always a reviled idea, that it cleaves to the heart of a celebrated but perhaps outmoded American principle -- the rebellion against centralized power -- and that it is a founding American act enshrined in our most revolutionary document. '[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive,' counsels the Declaration of Independence, 'it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.' "
- posted by liz @ 1/25/2005 10:22:00 AM