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To: Enlightened1

We have a process to ADD states?

Why don’t we have a process ( albeit with HIGHER THRESHOLDS ) for sates to LEAVE if a super-majority of people within them WANT to leave?


11 posted on 10/02/2021 8:05:04 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: GraceG

I know people sometimes say we fought a civil war, which set the standard that states cannot secede from the union.

As you note, there is no procedure for states to leave the union.

I have wondered sometimes, if any state voted to secede, would a president nowadays use military force to keep such a state in the union? Lincoln did so in the 19th century, but would a president today do so?


25 posted on 10/02/2021 8:10:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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