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14. The Reactionary Crusade Against Trans Rights Is an Assault on Democracy – and Some Thoughts on the Idea of a “National Divorce”

Is This Democracy

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Lincoln Should Have Let Them Leave

Sally Kohn: I often hear people on the left say something like, Lincoln should have let them leave. And in fact, to be honest, we wouldn't have the 13th, 14th, or 15th amendments to the Constitution if they had not seceded it. If the southern states hadn't seceded, none of those amendments would have passed," she says. "It obscures the actual political geography of the country"

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