[Aurelius]

"The Militia Act, as the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the Prize Cases, is an absolute bar to unilateral state secession."

You know very well that that has been exposed time and again for the nonsense that it is. Do you wonder why you are not taken seriously when you continue to post totally discredited nonsense like that?

[WhiskeyPapa]

"The Militia Act, as the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the Prize Cases, is an absolute bar to unilateral state secession."

You know very well that that has been exposed time and again for the nonsense that it is. Do you wonder why you are not taken seriously when you continue to post totally discredited nonsense like that?

Oh, I think I am taken plenty seriously.

"Thus, the Court was unanimous in holding that the president had the right to mobilize the nation to do battle after Sumter, and that an actual state of war existed by mid July at the latest."

-- Lincoln's Constitution, p. 142 by Daniel Farber.

Here is the thing.

All nine Supreme Court justices said that --under statute-- that is, by the Militia Act, the president has the right to call out the militia of the several states to suppress insurrection.

Further, the act leaves it to his sole discretion when insurrection exists.

You won't "prove" anything else by appeal to the record.

Walt