“If it were, the argument would be mute.”
No, it would be moot. Mute is what many of our so-called constitutional experts ought to be, since there seems to be a lot of misinformation being tossed around here.
As a resident of Washington State, something I’m not always proud to admit, I hope we never decide to secede. So much of this state is owned by the federal government that by the time we got done paying the rest of the states for their interest in it, we’d have to apply for foreign aid as we’d be broke. So we would be right back to surviving on federal money with strings attached to it. What improvement would that be?
Problem is the Federal Government stole much of that land from the citizens of your state through land grabs for ‘protection’ and national parks, ect..much could be given back and most states (most people) wouldnt really care..