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Is Secession Legal?
01/19/2020 | Rfreedom4u

Posted on 01/19/2021 4:38:09 PM PST by rfreedom4u

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To: rfreedom4u

Bkmk


21 posted on 01/19/2021 4:50:45 PM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: rfreedom4u

Lincoln proved it was illegal.


22 posted on 01/19/2021 4:50:46 PM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: rfreedom4u

Texit?


23 posted on 01/19/2021 4:50:47 PM PST by Lite
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To: rfreedom4u

Who decides legality or illegality? CornPop....Heels Up...Schumer?

If Texas votes to leave, I’m thinking they’re going to have some company. I’m just hoping that Georgia, even with the corrupt POSs we have as our elected representatives, goes with them.


24 posted on 01/19/2021 4:51:10 PM PST by qaz123
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To: UnwashedPeasant

The colonies did not secede from Great Britain. They were colonies, which meant that they were governed differently from the rest of Great Britain. All U.S. states are governed equally under the U.S. Constitution.


25 posted on 01/19/2021 4:51:36 PM PST by drjimmy
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To: Slyfox

So, you’ll have no problem getting on a knee for what is coming?


26 posted on 01/19/2021 4:51:56 PM PST by qaz123
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To: rfreedom4u

This country was established as the result of a secession movement. The notion that secession is somehow “illegal” by any objective measure is ludicrous.


27 posted on 01/19/2021 4:52:19 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: eyeamok

“I thought Texas specifically retained the right to secede when they joined the Union.”

If that were the case, Texas would have stayed out of the Union after the Civil War.


28 posted on 01/19/2021 4:53:06 PM PST by Meatspace
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To: rfreedom4u

“Legal” is not a word that applies to secession.

Does not matter.

My son, the word ‘legal’ has nothing to do with evaluating whether or not an action is just or right.


29 posted on 01/19/2021 4:54:16 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Ah, our Supreme overlords once again make national law. 5 Justices decided that secession was unconstitutional. That’s right, 5 unelected officials get to decide for the whole nation. Old Bill Shakespeare might have been on to something.


30 posted on 01/19/2021 4:55:23 PM PST by Rlsau1
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To: rfreedom4u

It’s legal. Most everyone in the early days believed it was. It’s a very important part of being free imo.


31 posted on 01/19/2021 4:56:10 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: rfreedom4u

It is if you win.

L


32 posted on 01/19/2021 4:56:39 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: UnwashedPeasant
..."Government by consent."....

Everything is legal if both sides agree. Texas has always been too valuable to lose. Louisiana, not so much.

Think about it, who would bitch if New Mexico left?

33 posted on 01/19/2021 4:57:21 PM PST by chuckles
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To: rfreedom4u

Having been a policeman, you often run into the conflict between doing what is ‘legal’ and doing what is just and right.

Before there were cameras everywhere LEO’s could decide between them in particular street incidents; it was called ‘discretion’.

Can’t do that anymore.

But for secession, ask yourself, all of the BS foisted on We the People by Congress for the past 50 years...Was it ‘legal’? Certainly. Was it Just or Right? Well..


34 posted on 01/19/2021 5:00:28 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: rfreedom4u

I don’t think there will ever be permission. If it comes to it, you prepare for consequences and do it.


35 posted on 01/19/2021 5:00:40 PM PST by teevolt
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To: rfreedom4u

It could happen, but it would require the consent of Congress and the states.

Unilateral secession is expressly unconstitutional.


36 posted on 01/19/2021 5:03:18 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rfreedom4u

No. Next question.


37 posted on 01/19/2021 5:03:32 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: rfreedom4u
Haiti seceded from the French empire through a slave revolt. South Sudan broke from Sudan. Yugoslavia broke into several countries and later Kosovo seceded from Serbia. Czechoslovakia split into two countries. The Soviet split into quite a few countries. The UK left the European Union. And many others….

Maine seceded from Massachusetts, Tennessee seceded from North Carolina, Kentucky seceded from Virginia, Vermont seceded from both New York and New Hampshire.

38 posted on 01/19/2021 5:03:33 PM PST by SeeSharp
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To: Slyfox

“The Union is what made our country.”

And a 19th century ideology is destroying it.


39 posted on 01/19/2021 5:04:16 PM PST by dljordan
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To: rfreedom4u

We will overwhelming take back the Congress and expel Seattle, Portland & SF

FORCE them to join Canada


40 posted on 01/19/2021 5:04:19 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ) )
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