I was talking about the Constitution, you tried to limit the discussion to only the Tenth Amendment to score an empty rhetorical point, but I was not taken in by that ploy.
If you could write clearly, it would have been obvious.
Perhaps if I used monosyllables with my interlocutor it would have been.
You're saying that the supreme court is 100% right and should never be questioned.
Not at all.
I am saying that under our Constitution the South Carolina State Assembly has zero constitutional authority to void the acts of any other state and that their only constitutional recourse is the federal judiciary.
What a useful idiot you are.
You can't resist invective, can you?
You used the word "ultimatum".
Good thing you aren't engaging in semantics.
While you continue to attempt to divert the substance of this discussion into trivial minutiae, I have to point out why you are avoiding the substance - because the substance undermines your claims.
(1) The South Carolina State Assembly's case for secession revolved entirely around slavery.
(2) The South Carolina State Assembly's reasoning was Constitutionally unsound.
The Constitutional remedy for legislation in other states that one's own state considers injurious is recourse to the federal judiciary - which, I repeat, had found in South carolina's favor repeatedly already. Secession was not the Constitutional remedy.
Moreover, the right to recover one's escaped slave was a personal right and not a "right" of a state (states, again, cannot possess rights) - it simply was not a state matter at all.
I started the discussion!?! and it was about the 10th!
This thread is about the right to fly a certain flag that is repulsive to certain people but the right to fly that flag is constitutionally protected.
In 1860 there was a certain type of property that was being kept by some people and the keeping of that type of property was repulsive to certain other people, but, the possessing and keeping of that property was constitutionally protected.
Constitutional rights should never be subject to the whimsical emotions of the hypersensitive and/or the uninformed historically illiterate masses, aka The Politically Correct.
However, if the people of one region of the country can violate the constitutional rights of the people of another region of the country with impunity, then it is a moral imperative for those people to declare themselves independent from the offending region.