Posted on 07/12/2015 9:11:31 AM PDT by ladyjane
That's the way the country was wired, first in 1777 with the Articles of Confederation, and again in 1788 with the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Article I (Article 1 - Legislative) of the Constitution spells out duties and responsibilities of Congress.
Section 10Thus no states may enter into independent confederacies - only Congress possesses that authority.1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Article II (Article 2 - Executive) establishes the role of the executive (president).
Article III (Article 3 - Judicial) defines the duties and responsibilities of the judicial branch - essentially the Supreme Court.
Section 21: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State —between Citizens of different States, —between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
Thus the Constitution grants the Supreme Court (the collective states) authority and jurisdiction over disputes between states.
Article IV (Article 4 - States' Relations) defines the relationship of the states to the whole.
Section 31: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Thus it is up to Congress to admit or expel states. In the event of a circumstance such as happened with West Virginia, it is up to Congress plus the affected states to make such a division. Individual states do not possess the authority to do so - not legally at any rate.
To recap: yes it is a case of the federal government telling the states what they can and cannot do - that is the way the law was designed. No, it doesn't go against the 10th amendment because the Constitution granted the appropriate powers to both the Congress to define and organize the states and to the Supreme Court to adjudicate disputes between the states.
As to rising up in revolt - if you do so you had best be able to prove your case against an alleged "dictatorial government" or you're likely going to have a rough go of it. The Colonialists did; the insurrectionists didn't.
Please inform me of the location of all bottles of Rebel Yell.
I am forming a group that will collect and properly dispose of each.
Shirley Temple, who knew?
OK, the whackos want to be done with all things Confederate. I suppose not one of them understands that the first soap factory in North America was commissioned by General Robert E. Lee. Prior to the Civil war, soap was always made in the kitchen by the woman of the house or imported perfumed soap from France could be bought (at high price) in a general store. When the men went off to war, their wives did not go with them. A year or two into the war and General Lee made the remark that his men smelled bad. He ordered his Commissary General to build a soap factory in Richmond so that his troops would not smell like Yankees. Thus was established, the first soap factory in North America.
All you Confederate haters! You should all give up bathing.
No, Stalinists, erasing history.
Ah, Rebel Yell. My mother used to make some kind of chicken with a white sauce made with Rebel Yell. Unfortunately I don’t have the recipe. Maybe someone here does?
Dear Prudence - Advice on manners and morals: Confederate Flag Dilemma; Someone in my apartment complex flies a Confederate flag. What can I do?
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/dear_prudence/2015/07/dear_prudence_video_confederate_flag_dilemma.html
Get bucket of KFC Chicken, drink Rebel Yell.
September 19th!
Nice story - even if it isn’t true. There were commercial soapmakers in the 1600’s. William Colgate started a candle and soap making company in New York City in 1806.
I like that. Says a lot in one simple image.
Excellent!
ARRRR! Iz got me eye patch at 'and and me cutlass sharp enough to cut any brigand. ARRRR.
Yes, but it was Lee who took it to a large factory operation capable of making soap in quantities for an army. Soap production before that consisted of making batches for a few hundred or more at a time.
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