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To: ReignOfError
1/3 of the states joined the Union during or after the Civil War, when it was pretty clear secession wouldn't fly.

So what? We're talking about events before the War of Northern Aggression. What happened afterward has no bearing on the concept of secession prior to TWONA....

45 posted on 08/05/2010 6:51:29 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: Thermalseeker

Your claim was that no state would have joined the union if it thought it could not later secede; a third of the states joined with the explicit understanding that secession would be all but impossible, which tends to undercut that argument.

“No state would have ever” is somewhat hard to reconcile with the fact that seventeen states did.


104 posted on 08/05/2010 7:55:21 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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