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those in the Confederacy saw themselves as rejecting a governmental arrangement that they believed didn't represent their interests -- not unlike those involved in the Revolution.
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Sure, they saw themselves that way. But the reason the government didn't represent their interests was because
they lost in a free election, not because they were denied the opportunity to voice and vote their own interests. They just got outvoted. Deciding that the president of your democracy isn't actually your leader because he wasn't the one you chose is worlds away from being denied a vote in the first place, as the colonists were.
33 girl, take another look at my post #218. I didn't say that the revolution was about monarchies being evil. I said that _I_ believed they are evil, and that's why I view rebellion against one as morally distinct from rebellion against a democracy. In other words, I said nothing about what motivated the revolutionaries, only my standard for judging their actions. My only claim about revolutionary war soldiers was that for most of the war, they were "fighting on behalf of what was already a democracy, against a monarch." Do you disagree with that?