Declaration Confusion - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Mises Institute
“Indeed, Jefferson himself was no great enthusiast for the Constitution. It was written in his absence, and he only acceded to it on the assumption that the states could escape the union if they chose and the Constitution be amended if the new government threatened to become despotic. It turned out that the first large-scale test of his wish (1860) came only after the central government had accumulated enough power to annul the Declaration.
Federalist distortions were nothing compared with the brazen misrepresentations pushed by President Lincoln. In his hands, the Declaration became nothing more than an affirmation of the equality of all men. It was a rhetorical tactic designed to counter the view held by most people in the South that their secession was nothing but a renewal of the original spirit of the Declaration. Just as the American revolutionaries threw off the British yoke, the South would throw off the Northern yoke.
How could Lincoln promote the Declaration while crushing the right to self-government? There is no better way to counter your opponent's best argument than by taking it up yourself on behalf of a contrary cause. Today this is called triangulation, and it worked as well in the 19th century as it has in the Clinton years. “
Muitos devem conhecer os “Federalist Papers”, o conjunto de textos onde se procurava justificar a racionalidade do Federalismo e duma Constituição. Mas ao mesmo tempo, havia quem se opusesse, publicando aquilo que se designa por “Anti-Federalist Papers”.
Pois existe um que tinha um título profético, uma vez que se realizou apenas algumas décadas depois.
Antifederalist No. 7: "Adoption of the Constitution Will Lead to Civil War "
http://www.federalist.com/antifedpapers/antifed7.htm
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