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To: lentulusgracchus
Garbage. You're just implying your way to totalitarian dictatorship. Why don't you go do that stuff in Paraguay? They'll be impressed.

Garbage, because you say so? You'll forgive me if I remain underwhelmed by your arguement. Or your newest attempt to connect me with yet another totalitarian regime, though I think you missed the mark with this one.

Meanwhile, our Constitution doesn't say any of these things you keep reading into it.

By inplication it does.

Secession is not expressly limited or forbidden in Article I, where almost all the other express prohibitions are listed, and contrary you, powers not granted are reserved -- even Marshall said so, in the Virginia ratification debate.

And the word 'expressly' is found nowhere in the Constitution, and your claim that the only powers exercised under the Constitution are expressly stated - even Marshall said so, in McCulloch v. Maryland.

Plus, the Tenth Amendment makes it crystal-clear, that all other powers not granted, would be reserved, and everyone signed on with that. Some States were quite explicit about reserving the power to secede unilaterally, and New York, Hamilton's own State, was one of them.

And nowhere is the means of resuming those powers expressly stated in the ratification documents. Regardless, those documents do not form the law of the land. The Constitution does.

686 posted on 05/29/2008 3:43:41 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

“By implication it does.”

For the 10,0000000th time: Implication is not FACT!

Jeezus......


701 posted on 05/30/2008 2:12:15 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861
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