To: fortheDeclaration
so can the states now turn around and eject any state they like-based on the 10th amendment?The answer was previously posted to you in #410 - Article V: 'no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.'
No state can be ejected from the union without IT's consent. The power of that state to pack up and leave is not prohibited.
438 posted on
04/28/2005 6:44:34 AM PDT by
4CJ
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
The power of that state to pack up and leave is not prohibited. It is restricted though. Congress may overrule them. Given records in 1860, I'd say that didn't happen.
439 posted on
04/28/2005 6:53:24 AM PDT by
MacDorcha
(Where Rush dares not tread, there are the Freepers!)
To: 4ConservativeJustices
The issue is that the States
are States
because of their relationship to one another in
Union.
They were colonies that became States, not colonies that became individual nations that later became states.
No colony was considered an independent nation and thus, no state can leave the union and become a non-state, which is what it would be if it left the Union.
Even in the Confederacy, they were considered states not individual nations.
And the Confederacy is in violation of making compacts with other states
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