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To: WhiskeyPapa
No state has ever withdrawn from the Union. The [Militia] Act leaves it up to the president to decide when insurrection is active. That's the law.

Your "reasoning" is completely baseless. What you are saying is that, because the Southern states were prevented for staying withdrawn (which they had already done), a right that they had was taken away and a new law created through simple military force with no constitutional precedent or Federal law being cited. This type of "reasoning" is completely asinine. Your argument would be laughed out of a freshman-level survey course!

786 posted on 05/02/2003 10:53:56 AM PDT by HenryLeeII
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To: HenryLeeII
Your argument would be laughed out of a freshman-level survey course!

How long did the rebels hold Nashville? New Orleans?

How long was South Carolina without federal troops within her borders?

No state has ever been out of the Union.

Walt

787 posted on 05/02/2003 10:59:05 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa (Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
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