EXACTLY, also the TENTH (10th) AMENDMENT to the BOR states that "those powers NOT ceded" to the federal government REMAIN with the STATES and/or with the PEOPLE.
SECESSION is just ONE of those RETAINED rights. if it were NOT so , it would be ENUMERATED!
free dixie,sw
260 posted on 09/13/2005 2:36:10 PM PDT by stand watie
(being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)