Scalia vs. Thomas Jefferson on secession

 

"Contemporary opinions, including those of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, say the idea of a state’s right to secede died with the hundreds of thousands of bloodied victims of the Civil War, and that the sentiment behind the dozens of petitions on a White House website seeking permission for most of the 50 individual governments to leave the union will be fruitless.

Whereas:

In a letter marked “not intended for the public eye,” he [Thomas Jefferson] wrote that states “should separate from our companions only when the sole alternatives left, are the dissolution of our Union with them, or submission to a government without limitation of powers.”    He continued, “Between these two evils, when we must make a choice, there can be no hesitation.”

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