Secession: A Peculiar Concept: "Have we forgotten that whenever governments become destructive toward the ends for which God institutes them, it is the right, it is the duty, according to our DECLARATION, to alter or abolish that government? I trust that by "whenever", Jefferson considered that such occasion might occur again in America when a despotic government might exist. Since all civil governments are but the subject provinces of the Almighty God for the establishment and enactment of His Laws, secession from a despotic government is one means to arrest evil in an area of governance. "
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