[Idabilly]

“I think the more important issues that “settled” the matter were the passing of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Those three sealed the fact that the states were junior to the federal government in the Constitutional scheme. The states essentially lost all control over the regulation of individuals within their boundaries and it clarified that all citizens of the states are also citizens of the United States.

And really, from a legal standpoint, that is why secession would not be allowed. If Texas decided to leave the union, Texas would - in theory - be denying its residents federally protected rights.”

How so?

Since the 14th Amendment was never ratified.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/fourteenth.amend.htm

[MrRobertPlant2009]

“Since the 14th Amendment was never ratified.”

And we are off to Militiaville.

I spent six months of my life getting emails from a client who wanted me to argue - in federal court - that the 14th Amendment was never ratified. I was eventually able to persuade him that such a tactic would probably do little more than make the judge want to hit him in the head with a gavel.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Since the 14th Amendment was never ratified.

Why does it not surprise me that an anti-semitic, holocaust-denying, White-Citizens-Council-leading, Huey-Long-following Louisiana political boss , who was quoted as saying, "Negroes are just not equipped to vote" wrote a legal brief in a school desegregation case arguing for his viewpoint.

You really need to develop your crackpot filter.