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To: Leatherneck_MT
The power of the States is legally defined (as is the power of the Federal Government) in the Document called the Constitution.

Since you claim that the United States was not created as a "prepetual union" under the Constitution, what exactly prevents a 2/3 majority of the Congress and a 3/4 majority of the other states from selling any given state to a foreign power even if that state does not wish to be sold?

145 posted on 02/22/2006 11:33:30 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto

The power was never given to the Federal Government to conduct that kind of sale.

If the power is not in there and enumerated, it doesn't exist.

That's what prevents them from doing it.


152 posted on 02/22/2006 11:40:49 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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