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“…  states’ rights, states’ rights, states’ rights …” â€" Texas Gov. Rick Perry, April 15, 2009

When I proposed up here at the buildup to the war on Iraq that if the United States no longer wanted to be part of the U.N. then New England should send its own representative, it brought a kindly note from John Kenneth Galbraith, who thought it “wonderfully to the good.” America’s greatest ambassador since Franklin, George Kennan, like Galbraith, almost into his hundreds, proposed New England secession. “We are a monster country,” he wrote, and proposed decentralizing the U.S. into a dozen constituent republics. Harvard’s pastor, the Rev. Peter Gomes, proposed a new Hartford Convention like the one during the War of 1812.

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