''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee
Well, for one thing, the entire US court system and legislature might be filled
with members of the British Accreditation Regency.... Oh, wait...
What if the British had won and taxes were less than they are now?
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
Mr. Adams you are correct Sir! Wasn't it the late Sen. from Pa. who opined that he wished we had brought some of the Scottish legal system with us?
''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee