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To: smug
ridiculous, the constitution says you can’t form a state of of a part of a existing state

You can't form it without consent of Congress as well as the legislature. That part of the Virginia legislature not participating in the rebellion was recognized as the legitimate government of Virginia by Congress. It was they who petitioned Congress to allow the partition.

276 posted on 04/05/2007 8:18:27 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
and the DAMNyankee-controlled congress was ITSELF fraudulent, upon the secession of the rest of the states.

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277 posted on 04/05/2007 8:54:55 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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