Wonderful presentation.... I've learned so much from you Dr. Livingston! I have much gratitude toward brave folks like yourself, who aren't academic lemmings nor puppets parroting politically 'correct' jargon ...
Excellent work by Dr.Livingston, his lectures on the secession and civil war as well as on recent events mirroring the political turmoil of the antebellum period are insightful and almost gives us a comprehensive road map. I do not know what the culture war could bring this country but If most other all options in order to throw off the yoke of tyranny fail and we are left with only two, I would sooner choose secession than the gun.
Legally, with respect to our system of government, nothing of substance changed following Lincoln's illegal invasion and conquest of the South. The States were recognized as free, independent, and sovereign nations in the Treaty of Paris dated 3rd September 1783 and in Article II of the Articles of Confederation (i.e., "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence..."). In fact, no version of the United States (and there have been no fewer then four, and five if you count Lincoln's post-war tyrannical empire as a "nation") has ever had sovereignty conferred upon it by the member nations of the Union nor has this union ever been recognized as sovereign by any Foreign State. While judicial opinions have asserted that neither the States nor the People retain a right of secession, such a view is in direct conflict with the Organic Law of the United States, better known as the Declaration of Independence, without which the States have no lawful or moral authority to exist. Secession is an unalienable right of man, and as such it cannot be abrogated by charter of government or subordinate law thereto. If there was treason during the War of Northern Aggression, then it was committed by Lincoln and his followers.
The Industrial Revolution was in its infancy in Jefferson’s time. The same holds true for Adam Smith. There’s no way of knowing what conclusions those individuals would’ve formed had they been born a generation later. If there’s an undeniable, inevitable connection between moderniization and centralization, why was the postwar South mostly left behind at an agrarian level of development? Conversely, how was it that the Confederate government, as a government that depended mostly on delegated powers, able to transform the South into an industrializing/modernizing state? The Confederacy went down the road of modernization because it had no choice. Had it done otherwise, it wouldn’t have been capable of defending itself from the modernized powers. What I’m talkiing about here has more to do with modernization as a security measure than with the broad philosophical implications of modernity. For example, a South that had educational systems of the same quality as those of the most advanced states (e.g., Finland) probably wouldn’t have been so easily taught to despise its culture and heritage.
I could listen to Dr. Livingston for hours. Another brilliant lecture.
Wonderful presentation.... I've learned so much from you Dr. Livingston! I have much gratitude toward brave folks like yourself, who aren't academic lemmings nor puppets parroting politically 'correct' jargon ...
Always learn something new and factual everytime I listen to one of his speeches. Fascinating man.
Excellent work by Dr.Livingston, his lectures on the secession and civil war as well as on recent events mirroring the political turmoil of the antebellum period are insightful and almost gives us a comprehensive road map. I do not know what the culture war could bring this country but If most other all options in order to throw off the yoke of tyranny fail and we are left with only two, I would sooner choose secession than the gun.
God bless Dixie
Thanks!
I LOVE DR.LIVINGSTON
Good reasoned argument.
Thank you.
Legally, with respect to our system of government, nothing of substance changed following Lincoln's illegal invasion and conquest of the South. The States were recognized as free, independent, and sovereign nations in the Treaty of Paris dated 3rd September 1783 and in Article II of the Articles of Confederation (i.e., "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence...").
In fact, no version of the United States (and there have been no fewer then four, and five if you count Lincoln's post-war tyrannical empire as a "nation") has ever had sovereignty conferred upon it by the member nations of the Union nor has this union ever been recognized as sovereign by any Foreign State.
While judicial opinions have asserted that neither the States nor the People retain a right of secession, such a view is in direct conflict with the Organic Law of the United States, better known as the Declaration of Independence, without which the States have no lawful or moral authority to exist.
Secession is an unalienable right of man, and as such it cannot be abrogated by charter of government or subordinate law thereto.
If there was treason during the War of Northern Aggression, then it was committed by Lincoln and his followers.
Well said !
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Good work
Great thoughts
Brilliant speech.
Wisdom
Bingo
Great video
I didn't know Livingston was a Wake Forest alumnus. Go Deacs.
When will Dr Livingston come out with his new book?
Is there any way to get these lectures on a flash drive so they don’t fade into non existence if and when they get cen$0r3d?
"we need someone to sell the stuff"
okay there.
Well, that's about all the jews did, once they weren't allowed to ship the slaves in anymore.
Ancapistan
The Industrial Revolution was in its infancy in Jefferson’s time. The same holds true for Adam Smith. There’s no way of knowing what conclusions those individuals would’ve formed had they been born a generation later.
If there’s an undeniable, inevitable connection between moderniization and centralization, why was the postwar South mostly left behind at an agrarian level of development? Conversely, how was it that the Confederate government, as a government that depended mostly on delegated powers, able to transform the South into an industrializing/modernizing state?
The Confederacy went down the road of modernization because it had no choice. Had it done otherwise, it wouldn’t have been capable of defending itself from the modernized powers.
What I’m talkiing about here has more to do with modernization as a security measure than with the broad philosophical implications of modernity. For example, a South that had educational systems of the same quality as those of the most advanced states (e.g., Finland) probably wouldn’t have been so easily taught to despise its culture and heritage.
So glad this bigotry and racial hate is slowly fading away.
Lee the traitor?