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To: 4ConservativeJustices
What you won't get any of the framers to say is that unilateral secession is disallowed by the Constitution OR in U.S. law.

You know that is false.

"The words of the Constitution are explicit that the Constitution & laws of the U. S. shall be supreme over the Constitution and laws of the several States; supreme in their exposition and execution as well as in their authority. Without a supremacy in those respects it would be like a scabbard in the hands of a soldier without a sword in it. The imagination itself is startled at the idea of twenty four independent expounders of a rule that cannot exist, but in a meaning and operation, the same for all."

Why would you tell a big lie like that?

And what about John Marshall?

"The mischievous consequences of the construction contended for on the part of Virginia, are also entitled to great consideration. It would prostrate, it has been said, the government and its laws at the feet of every state in the Union. And would this not be the effect? What power of the government could be executed by its own means, in any states disposed to resist its execution by a course of legislation?...each member will possess a veto on the will of the whole...there is certainly nothing in the circumstances under which our constitution was formed; nothing in the history of the times, which justify the opinion that the confidence reposed in the states was so implicit as to leave in them and their tribunals the power of resisting or defeating, in the form of law, the legislative measures of the Union..."

Big lies won't win the day.

Walt

1,234 posted on 11/28/2002 3:26:59 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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To: WhiskeyPapa
Nullification is not secession. Please try again.
1,237 posted on 11/29/2002 2:34:05 PM PST by 4CJ
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