[Grand Old Partisan]

"The Militia Act does not apply to a state that seceded"

Secession is impossible, and seccessionist assertions by rebel conclaves are meaningless.

[rustbucket]

Has the following act of secession been repealed? From The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, Dec 2, 1860:

The New York Express has the following:

The Republicans and others in the North who denounce Southern secession, forget that the records of the Massachusetts legislation have them in resolutions to the following effect:

"Resolved, That the annexation of Texas is, ipse facto, a dissolution of the Union."
"Resolved, That Texas being annexed, Massachusetts is out of the Union"

These resolutions, we are told, stand unrepealed. With the personal liberty bill, these resolutions embody nullification in a two-fold form. Supposing now that Massachusetts repeals her "out of the Union act," and with it her personal liberty bill, and thus restores herself to the Union under the constitution.

For all these years, Massachusetts has been out of the Union. Maybe this means Teddy Kennedy can't vote in the Senate anymore.

[GOPcapitalist]

Secession is impossible, and seccessionist assertions by rebel conclaves are meaningless.

If secession was "meaningless" and could be dismissed in a word as you attempt to do, why did Abe Lincoln spend so much time, so many lives, and such vast ammounts of money stopping it?