Episode 287: Secession: Good for me but not for thee?

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English - August 10, 2022 14:30 - 43 minutes - 35.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 336 ratings
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The Founders gave strong philosophical arguments for why secession from Great Britain was right and proper. Yet, when the Confederacy tried to secede from the Union, philosophical arguments against secession were few. Clearly, ending slavery was right and proper. And, the question of secession was, practically speaking, answered with the eradication of slavery. But the question of whether it is right and proper for states to secede remains, at least from a philosophical perspective, unaddressed.

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