If You Could Choose Any Previous President...

[DragonMasterAlex]

""The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." "

RESERVED by, not GIVEN TO. HUGE difference.

In either case, the states don't have the right to secede. The PEOPLE have the right to overthrow the government if it becomes oppressive to them, but even then only after a "long and successive train of abuses," not just for one incident. And even at that, Lincoln didn't abuse anyone's freedom; he extended it to include black people. No person can have the right to own another, PERIOD.

Jason

Originally posted by: Mayax

No, it's not even debateable. Read the 10th Amendment very closely. It states that any powers not given to the government are given to the states and the people. The government is granted the power to admit states into the union but there is nothing in there that gives the government the power to remove states from the union. By the 10th amendment and default, the power to leave the union belongs to the states entirely. As it is an amendment, it overrides anything to the contrary in the original Constitution.

Also read up on Thomas Jefferson's writings. He wrote the constitution and he was under the impression that the states were free to leave the union whenever they wished.

 

[naddicott]

Jimmy Carter for a second term. His years of tireless service as an ex-president has shown him to be a better man than anyone else to hold the office to date. It would be nice to have someone the rest of the world respected back in the white house. That and I like his politics.

I've seen the canned attacks on Carter's record in office, and I've seen the accusations leveled at Reagan's camp with brokering a deal to keep Hostages from being released just long enough to lock the election, and I don't feel like re-hashing over any of those details. My personal preference is Carter - at least he's not dead.

 

[Strk]

Teddy Roosevelt, just because of this quote

Until we put honor and duty first, and are willing to risk something in order to achieve righteousness both for ourselves and for others, we shall accomplish nothing; and we shall earn and deserve the contempt of the strong nations of mankind.