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And it's not just the Confederates. I've been hearing that chant from the right pretty much my entire adult life. When I was a Republican, I agreed with it. As I learned more, and learned how it was (and sometimes still is) abused, I became less in favor of it.

It's largely used as a pejorative by the liberal set. Sadly, these people have very little understanding of basic civics and that's why so many of them fail to grasp the notion of jurisdiction or the tension between the federal government and the states that is actually one of the reasons why our system works so well: the dynamicism keeps things moving forward.

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