To: Aurelius
We hear a lot about secession, but what about the opposite.
Can a state be purged? What mechanism exists to eliminate a state from the union? Are we stuck with the NE states for ever?
53 posted on
06/12/2003 8:53:51 AM PDT by
bert
(Don't Panic!)
To: bert
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Can a state be purged?"
Can Califoreignia?
56 posted on
06/12/2003 9:00:11 AM PDT by
azhenfud
To: bert
What mechanism exists to eliminate a state from the union? Are we stuck with the NE states for ever?
There was a great deal of serious discussion of seccession in New England during the War of 1812, as the war was hated in those states because it completely destroyed the seaborne trade of the US; support for the war was entirely from inland states that wanted to conquer Canada.
69 posted on
06/12/2003 9:43:51 AM PDT by
John H K
To: bert
James Madison and Abraham Lincoln both observed that if a state can secede it can be expelled.
82 posted on
06/12/2003 11:28:34 AM PDT by
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