Intersting that in the face of all the southern hostility the Northern states hadn't resorted to expelling the Southern states from the Union. Must have had thicker skin than the rebels I guess.
With their massive exports, such a tax would amount to a loss of almost half their revenue.
Are you sure it wasn't 3/4ths of their revenue? Or maybe 7/8ths? After all if you're going to toss figures out there why not make them big ones?
Secession is NOT prohibited. A liberal believes in a LIVING Constitution, a document says whatever they want. Until you can cite a clause that specifically prohibits secession, you have no case.
And yet you claim that the Constitution forbids a state from being ejected against it's will. Funny, I never pegged you for a liberal.
LOL! I've posted the constitutional clause that prevents a state from being denied representation in the Senate. In your tortured reasoning it is a LIVING Constitution where what's written doesn't mean squat.
You wrote in 417, And I will repeat, since you seem to be a little slow today, if the other states, acting in the capacity as sovereign entities, boot another state out of the Union then that body of land is no longer a state. No longer bound by the Constitution. No longer protected by it. It has no right to representation, so the other states are depriving it of nothing.
You and 12 others have an agreement that YOU may not be denied a seat at that table, unless YOU decide not to show up. But in the liberal world of Non-Sequitur, if the other 12 lock the door, and hold you at bay with guns, you have not been denied a seat. In my world, the 12 have violated the agreement, but you claim they have abided by their agreement.
Yet if you leave voluntarily, tell them you're leaving and not coming back, the others track you down at gunpoint, slaughter your familily, burn your home, destroy your crops, steal all your possessions, and drag you back to the table, that's perfectly ok?
Your words proves who's slow and liberal, a believer in a 'living' Constitution, and it's not me.