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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3298398" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Takes one to think he knows one.  Did you not learn about the Whiskey Rebellion in high school?  The Federal government has been exerting it's authority over the citizenry since the beginning.  Do you think the Federal government overstepped it's bounds when it sent in the troops in Arkansas and Alabama to enforce desegregation?  Where in the Constitution does it spell out they can do that?  And yet was done, rightfully so for all the race baiters looking to pounce.  Exactly where would we be without Lincoln sending in the army when the South rebelled?  States rights and all that.  The Federal gov't owns much of the land out West.  Why isn't that land turned over to the States?  Life isn't fair, huh?</p></blockquote><p></p>