To: lentulusgracchus
Chief Justice Chase found that the Confederate secession conventions were all, all illegal, that the People of the States had no power to withdraw from having the Union enforced on them. Which is an imbecilic finding considering that the current US Constitution was formed AFTER States began seceding from a document called the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.
If they could do it then, they can certainly do so in a compact where any such permanency is never even hinted at.
40 posted on
04/21/2009 8:36:13 AM PDT by
MamaTexan
(The Founders 4 boxes of FReedom- the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box...and the ammo box)
To: MamaTexan
“Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union”.
Notice the word perpetual? That means forever. The states already ceded their right to break from the union even before the constitution was written.
58 posted on
04/21/2009 11:03:47 AM PDT by
Delacon
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