[GOPcapitalist]

Ha. You are the one suggesting a state is not a state.

No Walt. I am asserting that a state which acts to cease its existence as a state is no longer a state by way of that act. It's a simple relationship of being. If a certain act causes A to cease to be A and instead become B, it is fraudulent to assert that B is still A. Yet that is exactly what you are doing.

[WhiskeyPapa]

I am asserting that a state which acts to cease its existence as a state is no longer a state by way of that act.

You try it.

"The doctrine laid down by the law of Nations in the case of treaties is that a breach of any one article by any of the parties, frees the other parties from their engagements. In the case of a union of people under one Constitution, the nature of the pact had always been understood to exclude such an interpretation." (Remarks to the Constitutional Convention, July 23, 1787).

-- James Madison

Walt