Posted on 06/24/2016 10:59:30 AM PDT by Lorianne
Here's a quote from the Articles of Confederation which preceded our Constitution:
"[T]he Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual;"
I'm not aware of any similar statements in our present Constitution.
The U.S. Constitution became ratified when 9 of the original 13 colonies approved it. How would it be possible for the first 9 to bind the other 4 to a Constitution they didn't approve?
A majority of Kalifornians are unwilling to bear arms in order to protect their own families. What possibility exists that they would bear arms in order to force Texans to stay in the Union?
Juncker? I thought it was a mean looking Fokker.
“François Hollande... added that the EU now needed a “leap forward” to ward off the danger of Eurosceptic populists.”
The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1961. It ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths, estimated from 18 to 46 million. Coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the foundation of the Great Leap Forward and it motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history.
Being a socialist, François Hollande should be very familiar with what the expression “leap forward” means.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, has floated the idea of an EU Army to provide, shall we say, “internal order”.
The author of the linked article asks basically the same question (i.e. If Texas were to make a move to secede, would California or other liberal states take-up arms to prevent such an action).
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