Better have an army to back up that succession attempt.
Oh, and I already know I misspelled secession.
Thank you for posting Intar.
Consider that all the states can effectively "secede" from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments (16&17A) imo.
But patriots first need to get their Constitution-impaired state lawmakers up to speed with the federal government's constitutionally limited powers by doing the following.
Patriots need to open the eyes of their state lawmakers to the fact that the so-called “federal” funding that state lawmakers regularly beg Congress for to keep their respective states running is arguably state revenues that the feds have stolen from the states.
More specifically, the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress steals state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the alleged election stealing Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are permanently stopped by repealing 16&17A, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that they can use to fix their own infrastructure, as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) had intended, including raising the salaries of teachers, police and firefighters for starters.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of the 14th Amendment, had clarified that the delegates to the Con-Con had left the care of the people to the states, not the federal government.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Justice Louis Brandeis later reflected on Bingham's words by introducing his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to emphasize state powers, ultimately depending on whatever state spending programs the legal majority voters of a given state want.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
Insights welcome.