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To: antiRepublicrat
You join an exclusive country club with the consent of the existing members. Do you need their permission to quit? Of course not.

It would depend on what the agreement said. Regardless, try and leave while owing money and with all the club property you can get your hands on and see how they react.

64 posted on 02/17/2010 10:08:24 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

No it wouldn’t. The provision of any given agreement may be found nonbinding if it is shown to be unconscionable. First semester contract law. Being forced to live under tyranny is the epitome of unconscionable contract. Therefore, it is inherently unenforceable, as a matter of law, the military calculus not withstanding.

Furthermore, freedom of association implies the right to quit any voluntarily entered association. You are right that consequences might follow, such as unsettled debt, and they must be attended, but the right of association (or lack of it) remains undiminished, as to our hapless country club member.

Extrapolating that right to the states is not that difficult. BTW, I didn’t see your post dealing with the rather persuasive argument that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. I am interested in your opinion.


77 posted on 02/17/2010 10:23:14 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Non-Sequitur
You can still quit. They may sue you for what you owe, but as a free person you cannot be forced to remain a member. As a sovereign entity, you'd think a state couldn't be forced to remain a member of the United States.

Remember, long ago people referred to this country as "these United States" and not "the United States." It is a willing association of states based on common protection and interest.

126 posted on 02/17/2010 12:42:25 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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