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To: Who is John Galt?
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None of those are in the Constitution. Do you need to see a copy? How many other things does the Constitution include aren't actually in its text?

What you are in fact claiming is that Virginia unilaterally amended the Constitution.

194 posted on 08/28/2008 9:44:24 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
None of those are in the Constitution. Do you need to see a copy? How many other things does the Constitution include aren't actually in its text?

LOL! No contract is valid without signatures - and the ratification documents of the States constitute the 'signature page' of the United States Constitution.

Don't like the written ratifications of the States of New York, Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations, and Virginia? Fine - kick them out of the union!

;>)

(But that's not what you want, is it? ;>)

What you are in fact claiming is that Virginia unilaterally amended the Constitution.

Wrong - the Constitution no where prohibited State secession (and the 10th Amendment actually reserved that right, in writing, to the States). Virginia was only taking extra precautions (apparently someone there had an idea of where things might go) to ensure that the State's rights were recognized.

206 posted on 08/28/2008 4:37:42 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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