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To: Non-Sequitur

Congress is not given the power to keep states forcibly in a Union they joined voluntarily.


374 posted on 05/15/2009 1:21:39 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP
Congress is not given the power to keep states forcibly in a Union they joined voluntarily.

The majority of the states didn't 'join' anything. They were admitted, and only with the permission of a majority of the existing states as expressed through a vote in Congress. Why should leaving require anything different?

376 posted on 05/15/2009 5:04:23 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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