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To: Ditto
Sounds like the Mendez Brothers defense to me. Ya, we killed our parents, but don't punish us because we're just poor orphans.

Nonsense. Walt's claim is that the applicability of federal acts to all states prevents them from seceding though it is not specified. His conclusion simply does not follow from his premise - its a non-sequitur.

85 posted on 01/24/2003 12:53:34 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Walt's claim is that the applicability of federal acts to all states prevents them from seceding though it is not specified. His conclusion simply does not follow from his premise - its a non-sequitur.

Walt is right in line with the father of the Constitution, James Madison. Madison said quite plainly that unilateral secession was not constitutional.

89 posted on 01/24/2003 12:57:59 PM PST by Ditto
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