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Originally posted by MRM
As a result, the United States, has had peaceful changes in government for centuries, and even put down the rebelion that was the Civil War. And the legacy America has given all other liberal democracies that have followed is the same: the government serves the people, it changes peacefully and does not live to perpetuate itself.
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The southern states lawfully seceded from the Union, there was no rebellion. In order for there to have been a rebellion; the Constitution would have to have had a prohibition to state secesion. Not only is there not such a prohibition, the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution reserves that power to the states, or to the people.
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And not all governments exist only to perpetuate themselves.
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You would be so kind as to point out one that does not.