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To: stand watie
the document SPECIFICALLY STATES that those powers NOT CEDED are reserved to the STATES & to the PEOPLE!

Yea, only in the wildest stretch of the imagination could anyone construe that to mean a state could leave when it felt like.

Hey, since that article is still in the Constitution why don't you guys get together and use it, demanding your right to secede be respected on that basis.

3,233 posted on 03/03/2005 5:05:00 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: fortheDeclaration; stand watie

The 10th Amendment was not intend to create any new rights or even grant rights to the states. It was about "powers." And what powers were those? The powers necessary to conduct good government within the constitutional and republican framework. Secession is the antithesis of good government.


3,243 posted on 03/03/2005 9:55:07 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: fortheDeclaration
i've always said that the 10th was the CORRECT reason.

i let others make up their OWN minds.

free dixie,sw

3,297 posted on 03/04/2005 7:58:15 AM PST by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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