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If New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia were so insistant that they could seceede, maybe they should have got it written in the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.

You know the constitution. That thing that neo-confederates think should be used to toilet paper when it doesn't suit them.

Words have meaning despite mystical mumbo jumbo like secession where things that are given away freely are really retained and not given away.

If New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia were so insistant that they could seceede, maybe they should have got it written in the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.

'This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.'

Federal laws pursuant to the Constitution have legal status - please cite one prohibiting secession. Cite one requiring states to petition for permission to leave.

The 10th Amendment - a part of the Constitution,states, '[t]he powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'

There is no delegtion from the states to the federal government to bar secession, nor are the states prohibited from leaving. It looks like it is written into the Supreme law of the land.

If New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia were so insistant that they could seceede, maybe they should have got it written in the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.

They did. Amendments 9 and 10 were directly brought about by the demands of these and other states, particularly Virginia.

there are NO neo-confederates, period, end of story.

BUT there are hundreds of thousands of PALEO-Confederates, who have not forgotten that our families once had LIBERTY from 1861-65.free dixie,sw