150th Anniversary

[RamoneWooddell]

It is my argument that the Confederate States of America was correct in their claim that secession was a right of a State. Per the Founding Documents this was the right of the State or Nation.

The Declaration of Independence states: (Bold by me)

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

In the 1st Foundation Document of both the United States of America and the Confederate States of America we see that secession was not only allowed but warranted and emphatically acknowledged as a naturally entitled right under the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. Therefore it is a God given right to secede from the United States.

Again in the same document:

"--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

This document removed them from the British Government. The same was done individually by each State which seceded from the United States of America and therefore from the Government which derived its limited powers from that Compact.

Next the same 13 Colonies became States or better put Sovereign States came into a Confederacy with each other. This was done in the Articles of Confederation.

"II.
Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled."

Then in the Constitution of the United States which did not replace the Articles of Confederation due to the fact that written law unless repealed is still in force even if in contradiction to other written law. Neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Articles of Confederation were repealed and replaced by the Constitution of the United States; in fact this is what the

Constitution of the United States says:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The same words are used in the Articles of Confederation and the addition of the phrase “in order to form a more perfect Union is used further solidifying the fact that the previous document was not replaced or repealed but was and is in force. It is upon these very documents which the Confederate States found the foundation for seceding from the Union which did continue without them and in forming for themselves a new Government to secure their liberty. As free States they should have been left to their own destiny, but even in that time the Government of the United States was being used as a tool of the United States of America specifically those in the Northern section of the United States of America to limit the freedoms of the Southern section and in some cases to try to remove their sovereignty not only in the owning of slaves (as wrong in my opinion as any other thing could be that is wrong) but in other ways as well.

This is but a small amount of proof for which the CSA was right in their creation of a new Government. This Government did not need the approval of an old. Relations with other Governments of the time were already underway. It was a runaway democratic Government which knew no limits even though they were there within its founding documents who usurped authority upon a separate and complete confederacy of Nation States. After the war between the two countries, Military occupation known as the Reconstruction Acts exiled the Confederate States Government but did not end it because it was never surrendered and a Treaty never signed to the effect. No allegiance to the United States was ever made. What happened was that a new puppet government for each State was created in a de facto state but the de jure never being dissolved. This is the defining of occupation.

The original Confederate States of America are still a country unto them and is in a state of occupation.