DiLorenzo has authored at least ten books, including The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, DiLorenzo has authored at least ten books, including The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, and Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe

Now I and others did not need Mr DiLorenzo to write these books but I and others I am sure are very glad he did…

This is why you never heard anything in your History classes ..Byrce…This and so much else!

And why did that happen Bruce? How did that happen? Have you answered that yet…? You need to talk to more educated Southerners…my friend..States rights and the sovereignity of states rel to the central government was forever settled according to the deconstructionists of American History by the results of The War Between the States…Once these individuals were able to subsume this right beneath the abhorrance of slavery…that was the end of state sovereignity…Of course many of these same deconstructionists also continued to import slaves in New England even after slavery was stopped there…
Moreover…even Mr Lincoln…who has become a “god like myth”…did not
free the slaves except in states that supposedly were in rebellion against the central government…Mr Lincloln was the ultimate pragmatist…one of the strongest purveyers of central government…not…”the god like myth”
man…

I am extremely happy that the right of states has come out from under the subsumation of the issue of slavery..indeed.

And even more happy that the Tenth Amendment Center has determined to
elucidate and educate anyone who seeks to understand the very nature of the structures upon which We the People rule in America…ignorance of history or not!

Keep going Bruce! Cheers..

You are spot-on! In fact, they barely spend any time on the subject in law school, where we spend a whole semester on the Constitution. Of course, as future lawyers, we need to learn what the state of the law is – as mangled as it is.

I strongly believe that tenth-grade should come with a requirement on understanding the relation between states and feds, at least for 6 weeks of a semester on history. Everyone is taught the Civil War was about slavery, when actually, that was really just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

How can one understand what caused major historical events like this to happen if they aren’t taught the perspective? It was all about power, control and law-making authority. Always has been – always will be.

In grade school, I remember getting out with an extremely vague notion that Reconstruction was just a rowdy period where rogue states didn’t want to accept losing the war. WTF????

Kudos for your proper perspective on education!

I agree we need to revise State pride, and that starts with taking control of education and putting greater emphases on State history and constitutional law. (If we are to pay to teach, anything in a democratic republic one would thing that is the most publicly interested thing to teach to all future voters, in that the future of our republican system of law and freedom is depended upon their knowledge of such things in voting.)

To that, end one possible argument for this is that most all of the laws and order come from the State not federal government and it is fundamentally essential that children are educated in the law of the land.

I am not sure we need to take it as far as pledging allegiance to the State flag or State republic. Remember we wish people to choose among the republics somewhat freely as to encourage competition between them for the same people and business.

We do however for the practical concern of getting people to pay attention and maintain the ballade need to get people to be much more strongly aware of their State and its importance.

And an only de facto POTUS or a BOGUS POTUS is the very counterfeit of the United States.

But, you are absolutely right about the federal government doing all kinds of evil things over the years.

So, what do you think is the best way to combat that – giving that same institution of government more or less power?

I “vote” for the latter.

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Damn the nation; give us back our Union!

George Taylor