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To: central_va
Would you care to quote the article and section that says secession is illegal?

Care to state where in it the Constitution it is allowed?

Even the Confederate Constitution didn't have it written in.

No nation could survive as a nation if any State could just leave whenever it felt like it.

Now, if you 'secessionists' are so keen on it, get it WRITTEN into the Constitution.

149 posted on 09/07/2010 10:05:13 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: fortheDeclaration

“”Would you care to quote the article and section that says secession is illegal?”

Care to state where in it the Constitution it is allowed?”

10th Amendment.

“Even the Confederate Constitution didn’t have it written in.”

Of course not Secession/Revolution was an inalienable(not cedeable) right, and a free constitution of civil government only specifies ceded powers, leaving the residual to the people.

As the 9th and 10th amendment were added to make perfectly clear for people like you.

“No nation could survive as a nation if any State could just leave whenever it felt like it.”

No nation has the right to exist if all of it’s members do not have a vested mutually beneficial interest in remaining members, and thus disinclined to leave.

As for your assertion, the existence of Russia and Canada are proof positive that a nation can exist if its members are allowed to leave whenever they feel like it.

Just governments don’t need rule by the sword.

“Now, if you ‘secessionists’ are so keen on it, get it WRITTEN into the Constitution.”

Why, you write ceded and cedeable rights into a Constitution. Inalienable rights which are not cedeable under any circumstance do not need to be written into any Constitution.

Unless of course you just need a reference to remember what is naturally true. One would think the Deceleration of independents and our founding history would be enough for you.

Of course by the same measure one would think the 10th and 9th amendments would also be enough for you. But apparently nothing is...


160 posted on 09/07/2010 11:19:01 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: fortheDeclaration
No nation could survive as a nation if any State could just leave whenever it felt like it.

Did the USA cease to exist during the period 1861-1865? Quit the platitudes, you've been brainwashed.

177 posted on 09/08/2010 3:34:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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