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To: Who is John Galt?
"Post some historical documentation that meets your own idiotic standards (specifically declares "unilateral secession," or "unapproved withdrawal from the Union" unconstitutional, before or during "ratification in 1788"). "

More blanks, more "Yeeeeee Haaaaaaaw!"

Constitution's Contract Clause

"Article I, section 10, clause 1 of the Constitution provides that “No State shall … pass any Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts.” "

Law of Obligations

Contract Law

English Contract Law:

"Definition of a contract:
A contract is an agreement between two or more persons (individuals, businesses, organizations or government agencies) to do, or to refrain from doing, a particular thing in exchange for something of value. Contracts generally can be written, using formal or informal terms, or entirely verbal. If one side fails to live up to his/her/its part of the bargain, there's a "breach" and certain remedies for solving the differences are available. The terms of the contract - the who, what, where, when, and how of the agreement - define the binding promises of each party to the contract." "

Now, consider Abraham Lincoln's First Inagural Address:

"I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.

"It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever -- it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

"Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it -- break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?"

Of course, I agree with Lincoln, and I suspect, so would "John Galt."

2,241 posted on 09/19/2009 9:54:37 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK
Your post is once again completely irrelevant, according to YOUR OWN standards. (In other words, "you're still firing blanks, pal.") Post some historical documentation that meets your own SPECIFIC requirement, that the phrases "unilateral secession" or "unapproved withdrawal from the Union" be included. Otherwise, "you're just jabbering for the sake of it."

"Face it, you have no real ammunition" - AND you're a complete hypocrite.

;>)

2,242 posted on 09/19/2009 12:07:07 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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