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To: WayneS

I am not taking a side in this one, just want to get some info. Do you have a link showing the framers of the constitution discussed the issues of seccesion? I know certains states had a provision concerning secession in thier acceptance of the constitution, but when did the framers discuss it and what was said?


162 posted on 02/22/2006 11:55:51 AM PST by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: dpa5923
I know certains states had a provision concerning secession in thier acceptance of the constitution, but when did the framers discuss it and what was said?

Not accurate. Several ratified "conditionally" on the terms that a "Bill of Rights" be added after the first congress convened. Those conditions were met by the 1st Congress, the "Bill of Rights" was sent to the states for ratification. That very same Congress also passed the Militia Act that gave the President to power and the duty to suppress insurrections.

167 posted on 02/22/2006 12:10:06 PM PST by Ditto
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