Secession

“Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves – the union between themselves and the State – and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury?”

If you're still paying federal income tax, you've got a lot of nerve thinking that you're in the opposition. Find out how to stop, at The Picket Line.

Jefferson, no matter how many other good things he did, was a slave owner, so that should rule him out. Ecotopia or how about California (not a bad name), or some other name from Spanish.

Well, I was surprised when I was googling this 1600s guy that people in my family seem to be proud to have as an ancestor. Assuming 30 yrs per generation, everyone now would have 2^9= 512 ancestors from back then, most of whom you can't trace. My grandmother was an abused child with self esteem issues, thrown out at age 12 or 13, by her mother who had been abused and sent on an orphan train. So she was really into genealogy to prove her relation to revolutionary war people, and was so proud to discover she was related to Captain John Lovewell, who helped lead the war to eradicate the Pequaket tribe of Maine in the 1600s, so she gave my dad that as his middle name, and my cousin gave her daughter Lovewell as a middle name. Maybe they didn't have TV back then so they were more into weird songs, but apparently Thoreau, and Longfellow both wrote about him as a hero who founded New England by killing that tribe. http://imaginemaine.com/Features/Archives/Lovewell.html