BY WALTER WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009
Texas Gov. Rick Perry rattled cages when he suggested that Texans might at some point become so disgusted with Washington's gross violation of the U.S. Constitution that they would want to secede from the union. Political hustlers, their media allies and others, who have little understanding, are calling his remarks treasonous. Let's look at it.
When New York delegates met on July 26, 1788, their ratification document read, "That the Powers of Government may be resumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness; that every Power, Jurisdiction and right which is not by the said Constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States, or the departments of the government thereof, remains to the People of the several States, or to their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same..."
A truly thought provoking article by Dr. Williams. Being a big believer in states rights I am in total agreement with Dr. Williams. Some may say this was settled by the Civil War, but when I look at what the Founders said I say, yes it has been settled, but not how most would say.
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