Just cogitating, and trying to stir it up a bit.http://www.allforums.net/images/icons/icon7.gif

A group of people institute a revolution because they don't like the laws imposed upon them by the government. About a 100 years later, their successors fight a war to stop a group of people seceding because they don't like the laws imposed upon them.
Rational or a power grab?

Aha--the American Civil War!

Sad to think that this nation was torn apart a few scant generations after it was founded. That's how long the great experiment worked!!

Still tho, the Southern States did have a constitutional right to secede. So, IMO, it was a power grab by the North and Henry Clay's followers.

Yet, if the Confederacy had succeeded, what would have prevented many states from breaking off and forming their own nation--this northern continent would have been a conglomeration of perhaps dozens of countries.

Yet, if the Confederacy had succeeded, what would have prevented many states from breaking off and forming their own nation--this northern continent would have been a conglomeration of perhaps dozens of countries.
I've thought about this... It's so interesting to think about how much more pronounced regional differences in culture would be if some states or groups of states were completely different countries!

"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

~~~~~ Benjamin Franklin ~ At the Signing of The Declaration of Independence