[WhiskeyPapa]

My saying that the Constitution does not empower the federal government to prevent a state from leaving is fact, given the document's lack of any language explicitly doing so; even WhiskeyPapa had to admit that there was no explicit Constitutional prohibition or federal law preventing secession as of December 1860.

There -is- a law that requires that United States law operate in all the states. It's the Militia Act.

Walt

[HenryLeeII]

HenryLeeII: My saying that the Constitution does not empower the federal government to prevent a state from leaving is fact, given the document's lack of any language explicitly doing so; even WhiskeyPapa had to admit that there was no explicit Constitutional prohibition or federal law preventing secession as of December 1860.

Walt: There -is- a law that requires that United States law operate in all the states. It's the Militia Act.

Uh, Walt, your response has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote.