What's the Fox letter?

That being said, independence or rebellion -- they are just two sides of the same coin -- the coin declaring that all men are endowed with the rights of self-government -- the rights upon which our country was established.

Hal






True enough, Lincoln recognized that the people(or even a subset of them) had the right to revolutionize. But, that was not exactly what Davis was claiming.

The right to achieve political power by Revolution, is in the DoI, not the Organic Law of the nation(Constitution).
 
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