[WhiskeyPapa]

You dropped the flag and Non-Sequitur picked it up to continue the charge, but he will have the same results as Sisyphus struggling in vain as the boulder that is the Tenth Amendment will not budge!

The 10th amendment never comes into play because Congress has the power to provide for the common defense and the general welfare.

And the federal government also guarantees a republican government to all the states. That is made null if a state can secede.

There is no legal state secession in U.S. law.

This is new to you, but you will get used to it.

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

You dropped the flag and Non-Sequitur picked it up to continue the charge, but he will have the same results as Sisyphus struggling in vain as the boulder that is the Tenth Amendment will not budge!

Arrogant, ain't he?

[HenryLeeII]

The 10th amendment never comes into play because Congress has the power to provide for the common defense and the general welfare.

This is such an ignorant statement that I don't know where to start.

And the federal government also guarantees a republican government to all the states. That is made null if a state can secede.

If you had any idea what republican, federal, and national mean in this context, you would realize how ridiculous that statement is.

There is no legal state secession in U.S. law.

You've already said that neither the Constitution nor Federal law prohibit a state from withdrawing.

This is new to you, but you will get used to it.

No, Wlat, I don't think I'll ever get over the sheer ridiculousness of what you say.

[nolu chan]

Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.