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To: Who is John Galt?
Article I, Section 10 says:

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

But it does NOT say:

No State shall, UNLESS IT HAS SECEDED, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Unless one wants to rewrite the Constitution thusly, it contains a flat prohibition against states exercising authority. Rewriting the document is the liberals way, a trap we should avoid.

What about the 10th Amendment? It reserves to the states and people powers not prohibited to them by the Constitution, but Article 1, Section 10 flatly and plainly prohibits actions of state sovereignty.

128 posted on 08/26/2008 6:26:17 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Sorry, but your argument is simply idiotic...


129 posted on 08/26/2008 6:36:04 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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