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RE: The United States Hasn't Been A Republic For Years, Nothing New.
The Civil War was fought to take away our liberty and transfer power from the individual to a centralized locus of power...not slavery as history tells us.
Exactly. Couldn't agree more. That as well as the south wanting nothing to do with the debt owed to the international creditors who were trying to collect from the north
Not to mention that the South repaid all of the debts accrued by the nation during the Revolution.