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	<title>Second Vermont Republic &#187; Vermont &#8211; Historical Documents</title>
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	<description>Seeking Vermont Independence from the American Empire</description>
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		<title>Vermont&#8217;s Noteworthiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Vermont is the only state which truly invented itself.  It was an independent republic before becoming a state.  (Texas was part of Mexico until 1836.)
2. Vermont was the first state to outlaw slavery in its Constitution.
3. It was also the first to give the right to vote to people without property.
4. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont&#8217;s Declaration of Independence (1777)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	To the honorable convention of representatives from the several towns on the west and east side of the range of Green Mountains, within the New-Hampshire grants, in convention assembled.
	Your committee to whom was referred the form of a declaration, setting for the right the inhabitants of said New-Hampshire grants have, to form themselves into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independence Resolution</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NO. R-105.  JOINT RESOLUTION designating January as Vermont HISTORY AND Independence MONTH.
(J.R.H.3)
Offered by:  Representatives Obuchowski of Rockingham, Ancel of Calais, Miller of Shaftsbury, Donahue of Northfield, Errecart of Shelburne, Heath of Westford, McAllister of Highgate and Milkey of Brattleboro.
Whereas, the first legal reference to the geographic territory that now encompasses the state of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvin Coolidge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Extemporaneous Remarks at Bennington, Autumn, 1928)
“Vermont is a state I love.  I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington, Mansfield, and Equinox without being moved in a way that no other scenes could move me.  It was here that I first saw the light of day; here I received my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Constitutionality of Secession</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few words are perceived to be more politically incorrect in America than the s-word, secession. Thanks mostly to Abraham Lincoln, secession is considered to be a complete anathema by liberals and conservatives alike. Although most Americans believe the Civil War proved once and for all that secession is illegal and unconstitutional, nothing could be further [...]]]></description>
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