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Had General Washington lost, he would have been hanged as a traitor, maybe shot.

If he came back and had to declare, would his position be closer to "Texian" or what passes for "American" today?

History is written by the winners, but facts are stubborn things.

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The thing these "sovereign citizens" forget is that the government has a monopoly on the legal use of violence. Even if their legal arguments were air tight, which they most certainly are not, might makes right.

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