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To: Grampa Dave
So please give me your opinion on whether it is legal or not and why you think that way?

Secession is legal because there is nothing in the Constitution that prevents it. Since it is legal then the only question remaining is how to go about it? How to permit secession so that both sides of the matter, the states leaving and the states staying, have all their rights protected? The only way to do that is through negotiation and then approval of a majority of the states as expressed through a majority vote in both houses of Congress. In short, leaving should be not more difficult than joining. The hard part would be the negotiations leading up to the vote, but without those negotiations and agreement by both sides you are guaranteeing an acrimonious split.

224 posted on 01/20/2021 4:12:57 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Thanks:

So please give me your opinion on whether it is legal or not and why you think that way?

Secession is legal because there is nothing in the Constitution that prevents it. Since it is legal then the only question remaining is how to go about it? How to permit secession so that both sides of the matter, the states leaving and the states staying, have all their rights protected?

The only way to do that is through negotiation and then approval of a majority of the states as expressed through a majority vote in both houses of Congress. In short, leaving should be not more difficult than joining. The hard part would be the negotiations leading up to the vote, but without those negotiations and agreement by both sides you are guaranteeing an acrimonious split.

224 posted on 1/20/2021, 4:12:57 AM by DoodleDawg


252 posted on 01/20/2021 7:26:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and Ameriica on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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