@Vladivoj Don't compare the Civil War to the Revolutionary War.
To start with, the Founding Father TRIED to resolve their issues peacefully. If the British Government gave the colonies a voice in parliament then there'd be no revolutionary war. The Confederates meanwhile declared war literally the moment Lincoln stepped into office, with neither warning nor ultimatum. That's why Fort Sumpter was caught off guard.
Secondly, the Founding Fathers actually had justifiable causes for fighting. They wanted a government in which individuals had rights and in which taxes couldn't just be raised without the consent of the governed. Meanwhile the Confederates were fighting because they wanted to own black people as slaves. The Civil War WAS about slavery; that's why it was abolished soon after the war and why The Confederate Constitution explicitly includes a statement preventing anyone from passing a law against the ownership of slaves.
Finally the Founding Fathers used acceptable means of rebellion. There was no Revolutionary Excess; no mass-execution of loyalists, no death camps. As for the Confederates, I already mentioned Andersonville.
Not all Rebellions are Justified. People tend to think that Rebellions are the righteous will of the people against tyrannical government, but sometimes they're just a handful of selfish assholes trying to advance their own self interest at the expense of everyone else.
As for supporting the "right to take up arms against government should it thread too close to tyranny", that's bad too. Whenever there's a mass-shooting (which is when some asshole goes to a public area like a movie theater or a preschool and guns down everyone in sight), the shooter always tends to think of himself as a rebel hero standing up against "government tyranny". They aren't; they're just selfish assholes who think "tyranny" means "the government is doing something I don't like".
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@Vladivoj Don't compare the Civil War to the Revolutionary War.
To start with, the Founding Father TRIED to resolve their issues peacefully. If the British Government gave the colonies a voice in parliament then there'd be no revolutionary war. The Confederates meanwhile declared war literally the moment Lincoln stepped into office, with neither warning nor ultimatum. That's why Fort Sumpter was caught off guard.
Secondly, the Founding Fathers actually had justifiable causes for fighting. They wanted a government in which individuals had rights and in which taxes couldn't just be raised without the consent of the governed. Meanwhile the Confederates were fighting because they wanted to own black people as slaves. The Civil War WAS about slavery; that's why it was abolished soon after the war and why The Confederate Constitution explicitly includes a statement preventing anyone from passing a law against the ownership of slaves.
Finally the Founding Fathers used acceptable means of rebellion. There was no Revolutionary Excess; no mass-execution of loyalists, no death camps. As for the Confederates, I already mentioned Andersonville.
Not all Rebellions are Justified. People tend to think that Rebellions are the righteous will of the people against tyrannical government, but sometimes they're just a handful of selfish assholes trying to advance their own self interest at the expense of everyone else.
As for supporting the "right to take up arms against government should it thread too close to tyranny", that's bad too. Whenever there's a mass-shooting (which is when some asshole goes to a public area like a movie theater or a preschool and guns down everyone in sight), the shooter always tends to think of himself as a rebel hero standing up against "government tyranny". They aren't; they're just selfish assholes who think "tyranny" means "the government is doing something I don't like".