My question concerns the possibility of a rebelious overthrow of the American government on a national level.
This question has nothing to do with the current administration, the war in Iraq, or any political agenda, so please leave any liberal, conservative, and centerist banter out.
This is more directly related to the views expressed by many philosophers during the enlightenment, that the government is made to serve the people, and if that government becomes corrupt, then it is the right of the people to rise up against it. Thomas Jefferson, himself, said that a government should be changed every hundred years or so, just for upkeep.
I wonder, if the American people were to grow tired or oppressed by the constitutional government, if they could rise up, and take back their power.
Even the Civil War was a little different. A geographic area attempted to secede from the union, as opposed to an overthrow of government power, as in the French Revolution.
2007-09-21
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