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To: rockrr
Thank you for that pertinent quote from Lee. And one thing no one seems to want to talk about now, if, according to the states righters, secession was legal in 1861, it's legal now. That goes under the theory of the "sovereign" states something not mentioned in the constitution.

If that were true, that would mean any state today could secede if it felt like it. That means some nuts could take over my state of Wisconsin and set up some phony baloney "independent" nation. What we would have then is utter chaos. Because at some point some nuts in any state could do the same thing. All Americans would be held hostage to the lunatics.

And just imagine trying to live in this new nation. You'd have to have new currency, new passports, new everything. In short, the idea of unilateral secession is lunacy. It was lunacy then, it would be lunacy now.

140 posted on 01/11/2014 3:18:01 PM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

-— In short, the idea of unilateral secession is lunacy. It was lunacy then, it would be lunacy now. -—

Dunno. Makes perfect sense to me. A majority vote would be sufficient for me.


141 posted on 01/11/2014 3:23:24 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: driftless2
And just imagine trying to live in this new nation. You'd have to have new currency, new passports, new everything. In short, the idea of unilateral secession is lunacy. It was lunacy then, it would be lunacy now.

Just WOW - what thoroughly depressing post. You epitomize the Federal boot licker. May you forever live in tyranny for you cannot even imagine living with hooks to uncle sugar and DC. You are a joke.

187 posted on 01/12/2014 3:58:18 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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