And, as James Madison said in the letter I posted previously, since it was created by all the people it could only be done away with by all the people, not any subset of those people.
462 posted on 04/10/2019 5:00:03 PM PDT by OIFVeteran
OiFVeteran: "And, as James Madison said in the letter I posted previously, since it was created by all the people it could only be done away with by all the people, not any subset of those people."
Right, disunion:
From necessity after "a long train of abuses and usurpations" as spelled out in their 1776 Declaration or,
by mutual consent to "form a more perfect union" as in 1788 with their new Constitution.
Neither condition existed in 1860.
484 posted on 04/11/2019 3:17:33 AM PDT by BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...))