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I can't win for losing :) Just trying to help Mr. Zak understand with baby steps...I agree, the General Government is one of enumerated powers....only.
Mr. Zak, this is a tidbit of John Quincy Adams discussing Thomas Jefferson's view on secession:
Concurring in the doctrines that the separate States have a right to interpose in cases of palpable infraction of the constitution by the government of the United States, and that the alien and sedition acts presented a case of such infraction, Mr. Jefferson considered them as absolutely null and void, and thought the State legislatures competent, not only to declare, but to make them so, to resist their execution within their respective borders by physical force, and to secede from the Union, rather than to submit to them, if attempted to be carried into execution by force.
LOL