(in before the zombies!)
Is the Boston Globe referring to Edward Kennedy?
I am as as strong a supporter of States Rights as anybody here. I am also a strong believer that the Confederate states had every right to secede. However, I am somewhat troubled by Article 10 of the US Constitution:
“No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or COMFEDERATION(emphasis mine); grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.”
Article 10 SEEMS to negate a state’s right to rescind its ratification of the US Constitution. Yet, it allows states to accept ONLY gold and silver in payment of debts. And if these powers are denied to the states; who has the power? All in all, Article 10 is most confusing.