The Frozen North: A Narrative Analysis

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Imagine a scenario where a state goes rebel and damages the Constitution. That is the reason we have a Constitution. That is the reason the national government was made and why it has the forces it was initially given: to save the union. States can't go off alone. We battled a terrible war over it, one whose essential point was not, the same number of accept, to end servitude, but rather to spare our country. Along these lines, regardless of whether it's Arizona this time or The Frozen North the following, no state will really go so far as to overstep the preeminent rules that everyone must follow or tread on our secured

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