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To: TBP
The states created the union, thus states can withdraw from the union.

Correct. States can allow secession and the avenue would be Congress, but individual states cannot unilaterally withdraw.

59 posted on 11/17/2012 8:45:20 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr
individual states cannot unilaterally withdraw.

Of course they can. It's the state that is sovereign. We are a federal republic composed of sovereign states.

Nothing in the Constitution prohibits secession if a state chooses to do so.

60 posted on 11/17/2012 8:48:25 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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