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The Constitutionality of Secession

Few words are perceived to be more politically incorrect in America than the s-word, secession. Thanks mostly to Abraham Lincoln, secession is considered to be a complete anathema by liberals and...

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Calvin Coolidge

(From Extemporaneous Remarks at Bennington, Autumn, 1928) “Vermont is a state I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington, Mansfield, and Equinox without being moved in a way that...

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Vermont Independence Resolution

NO. R-105. JOINT RESOLUTION designating January as Vermont HISTORY AND Independence MONTH. (J.R.H.3) Offered by: Representatives Obuchowski of Rockingham, Ancel of Calais, Miller of Shaftsbury, Donahue...

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Vermont's Declaration of Independence (1777)

To the honorable convention of representatives from the several towns on the west and east side of the range of Green Mountains, within the New-Hampshire grants, in convention assembled. Your committee...

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Vermont's Noteworthiness

1. Vermont is the only state which truly invented itself. It was an independent republic before becoming a state. (Texas was part of Mexico until 1836.) 2. Vermont was the first state to outlaw slavery...

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