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To: Old Teufel Hunden

“Name a local or state government where the citizenry have delegated to it the power to secede from it’s parent government on their behalf?”

West Virginia seceded from Virginia.


401 posted on 08/07/2010 7:43:01 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

“Name a local or state government where the citizenry have delegated to it the power to secede from it’s parent government on their behalf?”

Texas voted overwhelmingly in a public referendum to Secede in 1861.


402 posted on 08/07/2010 7:48:41 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: ought-six
"West Virginia seceded from Virginia."

From my post 395

"Not the West Virginia example either. Let's remember, the state was in rebellion at the time. A unique circumstance."
407 posted on 08/07/2010 9:05:06 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: ought-six
West Virginia seceded from Virginia.

Not really. The West Virginia statehood process followed exactly the constitutional process outlined in Article IV, Section 3. They did not declare unilateral secession as the Confederate states had done.

431 posted on 08/09/2010 11:15:35 AM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Time to Clean House.)
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