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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I suppose it's somewhat ironic that the idea of secession was probably started, or at least helped along in the early years, by Thomas Jefferson himself. During the bitter partisan fighting of the late 1790's, the Federalist party controlled the Presidency and both houses of Congress for four or six years. During this time the Federalists passed such wonderfully enlightened laws as the famous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. In protest, Jefferson authored the Kentucky Resolutions, which got their name when they were adopted by the Kentucky state legislature. Basically, they stated that the several states had the authority and duty to declare null and void any law which was contrary to the Constitution. The possibility of secession was raised during the same crisis. Ironically, just a few short years later, Justice Marshall issued the decision on [i]Marbury v. Madison[/i] and set up the entire judicial review process in a relatively short, ten-page (or so) decision. A decade later, a retired Jefferson expressed deep regret for even encouraging the concept of nullification and secession, realizing its potential for chaos among the states. It took the Civil War to finally settle the issue... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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