[lentulusgracchus]

How do you accomplish secession now?

You don't. You go the other way instead, and hold a constitutional convention to expel the New England States by amending the Constitution.

[Non-Sequitur]

You don't. You go the other way instead, and hold a constitutional convention to expel the New England States by amending the Constitution.

Well that makes absolutely no sense at all.

[Non-Sequitur]

You don't. You go the other way instead, and hold a constitutional convention to expel the New England States by amending the Constitution.

Well that makes absolutely no sense at all.

[bert]

.....expel the New England States......

I have used the word purge, but expel conveys the same thought.

You have proposed a legal method for achieving the objective.

That will take forever and requires the expelee’s consent. A better way is to drive them from the congress and simply tell them to be gone, they are no longer welcome, the places the represent are no longer part of the Union.

The force of arms is more effective than the fig leaf of law