The Once and Future Republic of Vermont (Washington Post)

From The Washington Post - Outlook Section:

By Ian Baldwin and Frank BryanSunday, April 1, 2007; Page B01
BURLINGTON, Vt.

The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.

Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has abandoned the democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans' fundamental freedoms.

Vermont did not join the Union to become part of an empire.

Some of us therefore seek permission to leave.


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ianb@sover.net
frank.bryan@uvm.edu
Ian Baldwin is publisher of Vermont Commons. Frank Bryan, a political science professor at the University of Vermont, is author
of "Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How
It Works."