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To: fortheDeclaration
what part of " the powers NOT delegated" and "are reserved to the States" do you NOT understand????

SECESSION is ONE of those POWERS, which neither the STATES nor the CITIZENS ceded to the central government.

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225 posted on 10/13/2006 9:09:34 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie
It is?

If a State cannot be ejected from the Union, what makes you think a State can leave the Union?

When the States agreed to the Constitution, they agreed to be united as one People-Americans.

232 posted on 10/13/2006 10:42:25 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal.4:16))
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