THE PRINCIPLE FOR WHICH OUR SOUTHERNERS SECEDED . . .

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Because of our indoctrination, most of us now believe the United States was designed to be a Democracy. WRONG!  The word "Democracy does not appear in a single one of the nation's founding documents. It does not appear in The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation preceding the Constitution, or in The United States Constitution—nor does it appear in a single, original state constitution for each state went into the Union as an individual, sovereign nation giving only limited rights to that Union., maintaining the vast majority of the rights as their own—and each acknowledging God's existence and influence.  There is an important reason for the deliberate avoidance of the word "Democracy."

(Amen!)

The Republicans were determined that the Constitution had to be either eliminated or reinterpreted—with the latter more desirable because it would be less troublesome to mislead the citizens of the north concerning the interpretation,.  Many of the northerners were illiterate, many of them could not read English, and all of them were naïve about the original form of the U.S. government—both its history and its form.

Southerners' influence had to be neutralized; an all-powerful central government managed entirely by Republicans, must control the United States.  The new party of Republicans was dedicated to that cause—even if it took numerous generations for it to be attained.

And that was precisely what the War of 1861-1865 was all about.

Read on:
http://www.deovindice.org/1/post/2014/07/the-principle-for-which-our-southerners-seceded-from-the-united-states-of-america.html