[Non-Sequitur]

the USSC was WRONG then...

Well, that's your opinion any you're welcome to it. However I should point out, again, that just because you think a decision is wrong or I believe a decision to be wrong means nothing in term of the validitiy of the findings. The Supreme Court ruled that unilateral secession was a violation of the Constitution and all the harping in the world from the sothron community isn't going to change that.

[stand watie]

one of these days maybe we'll get a decent (read strict constructionist) court and they will do something worthwhile like dumping all the bad precedents like dredd scott,plessy v. ferguson, roe v. wade, etc.

frankly, i don't accept marbury v. madison as truthful to a reading of the constitution either. usurpation of powers NOT given the supreme court is almost as hateful to me as the lawless/immoral actions of the congress (like FAILING to outlaw Partial Birth MURDER, for example.).

when dixie LIBERTY comes, we'll have TRUE states rights & FREEDOM will ring.

free dixie,sw

[HenryLeeII]

But the point is that the Supreme Court could point to nothing in the Constitution to base their findings on, so their opinion is no more "correct" than anyone else's. The determining factor was the battlefield. The Constitution contains nothing prohibiting secession; your insistence on differentiating between unilateral v. bilateral is your opinion, which you're welcome to, but can't be defended or advanced beyond the realm of opinion.