“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. …Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.”

–Abraham Lincoln, in an 1848 speech in the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting the war with Mexico and the secession of Texas

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