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To: usmcobra; All
SORRY, but your position is UNEDUCATED, SILLY & frankly, NOT intelligent.

the BOR supersedes EVERY action of the congress-critters/POTUS.

have you EVER bothered to read the 10th Amendment??? - IF the STATES had intended to CEDE their POWER (STATES have POWERS. only PERSONS have RIGHTS) of UNILATERAL SECESSION to the federal government, they would have SAID that they were doing so. they did NOT, thus UNILATERAL SECESSION was/IS LAWFUL & CONSTITUTIONAL.

fwiw, NO state at the time of the founding of this (HIGHLY experimental at that time) Republic would have joined a union FREELY that they could NOT (at their own motion) just as FREELY LEAVE.

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714 posted on 06/24/2009 2:22:27 PM PDT by stand watie (Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, LET MY PEOPLE GO.)
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To: stand watie

Stand no state has ever freely joined save for the original thirteen, every other state after this country was created has gone through an admission process by which they had to meet certain requirement in order to join the union.

It is you that is “UNEDUCATED, SILLY & frankly, NOT intelligent”.

Your position is that a state can join or leave whenever it wants with no consequences and that a state may use force (instant divorce style) to achieve such autonomy without an sort of consequence from all the other states.

You seem to forget that the civil war which you prefer to call the war of northern aggression or some other term de rigueur according to neoconfederate groups is more accurately call the war between the states.

Because it was ultimately the congress of the states representatives in both houses that approved the war in the first place and funded it in the second place. As evil as you would like to portray Lincoln he could do nothing without the support of the congress, oddly enough the very congress where I believe the south should have argued for secession....


728 posted on 06/25/2009 4:52:56 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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