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To: WestVirginiaRebel
The South did violate the Constitution by seceeding

??? Where is secession prohibited in the Constitution?

69 posted on 01/20/2006 5:40:27 PM PST by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket

>??? Where is secession prohibited in the Constitution?,

Secession is illegal only because the North won the war.Actually the first state to propose sucession from the Union was Mass.in about 1836.So even the Yankees looked on it as a voluntary union prior to the War of Northern Agression.


76 posted on 01/20/2006 6:46:34 PM PST by Blessed
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