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To: Non-Sequitur
Powers to admit states and to approve any change in status once they had joined was a power reserved to the United States by the Constitution itself.

Oh, how smoothly it rolls off your tongue, Dr. Pangloss.

Too bad it's total fantasy. You've already been corrected, and disciplined, for pushing that bagatelle.

The fallacy relies on your use of the word "reserved", which is meretricious and deceptive. Go on, quote the Article. It doesn't say what you say it says.

735 posted on 08/19/2010 4:14:26 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Oh, how smoothly it rolls off your tongue, Dr. Pangloss.

The Founding Fathers were eloquent men.

Too bad it's total fantasy. You've already been corrected, and disciplined, for pushing that bagatelle.

By you? ROTFLMAO!!!! All we've gotten from you is your lame opinion on where it's wrong. How about presenting it for all of us once again?

The fallacy relies on your use of the word "reserved", which is meretricious and deceptive. Go on, quote the Article. It doesn't say what you say it says.

Article IV says only Congress can admit a state or approve its partitioning or combining once it's been allowed to join. Article I, Section 10 prevents states from altering their borders by a fraction of an inch without consent of Congress. Implied in all this is the power to allow states to leave altogether. Or so James Madison believed. But hey, what did he know compared to the all knowing lentulusgracchus, right?

738 posted on 08/19/2010 4:31:06 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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