[tpaine]

AND, if you will read the ratifying resolutions of EACH and EVERY state when they agreed to ratifying the constitution, they ALL WITHOUT EXCEPTION RESERVED THEIR SOVEREIGNTY with the clear intent that if they didn't like being part of the UNION, that they reserved the right to withdraw from it.

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Then why didn't they present their case to the supreme court, get a ruling, & withdraw legally? They never even bothered to try too dissolve the union in a constitutional manner, because they knew they had no just, legal, case to present.

ALL of their grievances were resolveable. --- They rebeled & went to war instead, and lost. Learn to live with it.

[smolensk]

Then why didn't they present their case to the supreme court, get a ruling, & withdraw legally? They never even bothered to try too dissolve the union in a constitutional manner, because they knew they had no just, legal, case to present.

Because it is something you 'Yankees' can't understand. A king doesn't ask his subjects for permission to eat does he? Well, body of higher sovereinty doesn't have to go and ask permission of a lower entity to exercise that higher sovereinty.

And tell me this? Even if what you say is true, then why didn't the northeastern states who were meeting to secede from the Union in 1814 (over their disatisfaction with the War of 1812) plan to go to the Supreme Court and ask for permission? The only reason they didn't follow thru with secession is because Jefferson was able to bring the war to a close.

So what you espouse is 'bull'.