[4CJ]

State ordinances of secession had no legal effect on the legal foundations of the United States federal government; the Supremacy Clause is a general bar on State law impacting federal institutions.

Gary Charbonneau of the Indiana University Libraries? Or Supreme Court Justice Gary Charbonneau, or President Gary Charbonneau? Or founding father Gary Charbonneau?

Congress had refused to find fault in the seceded states actions. The Supremacy clause does not apply to the PEOPLE of the several states, only to the officers. The people are sovereign, and can change their form of government at will (see the Texas Constitution as admitted to the Union).

[nolu chan]

Surely it is Gary Charbonneau of the AOL Moderated Forum.

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