Post #902 offers a keen understanding into DgenerateLamp’s lunacy. To him “secession” means breaking any bond, rending any agreement, rescinding any treaty, at any time, and for any reason. No matter the consequence. No matter the damages. No matter the cost. And all without protest or recourse by those damaged by this betrayal.
Pretty slick deal, doncha think?!
Please read the following excerpt from the Founding document of this nation.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Sounds like that means they have the right to break any bond, rend any agreement, and rescind any treaty at any time and for any reason.
Consent of the governed.
Suppose for a moment, for the sake of argument, that any people anywhere have the right to secede. Any town can secede from the county, any county from the state, and so on. How would that right be affirmed? In a court of law? Or by rebellion and war?
Every president from George Washington stated clearly that they would oppose secession. So the Southerners knew war was coming, just as they knew that they’d force out union troops with violence. Johnny Reb rolled the dice, and he lost. Biggly.