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To: CodeToad

” to do away with the parts of the Constitution it does not like.”

Like the part where it gave states the right to secede.

;D


101 posted on 12/30/2012 5:27:18 PM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: Salamander
Like the part where it gave states the right to secede.

Another backwards thinker... The Constitution doesn't give rights. It gives limited powers to the federal government.

The States, in Constitutional Convention, gave those limited and listed powers to the federal government.

But the Constitution doesn't give any rights, even if it lists some to make damn sure and certain they don't get stepped on by federal government (not that it helped).

/johnny

108 posted on 12/30/2012 5:34:31 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Salamander

Of course you know the Constitution does not discuss when, how or if a state may seceed. Not a single word. This clearly kicks us over to the 10th amendment;

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”

Sounds like a state can decide. The civil war settled what hapens when an industrial, populous region of the nation fights a sparsely populated agricultural region,,,nothing more.


147 posted on 12/30/2012 6:07:45 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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