To: rockrr
Unilateral secession is unconstitutional, so says the Supreme Court in Texas v. White. Theres only one legal way to secede and that is through mutual decision of all the affected states.
Actually, that poorly put together court decision, only brought about because the carpetbagger government wanted to steal bond money from some of the citizens, stated that the only way to secede was through revolution or consent of the states. Well guess what? All of the states consented to leaving - Texas at least even had a public vote of the populace for it. The ones that didn't consent, just stayed in the Union. That decision also specified that membership in the Union was indissoluble and permanent. So if that's true, how could they say that there is a way to secede? Both of those can't be true at the same time...
To: Svartalfiar
Actually, that poorly put together court decision, blah blah blah And yet it has stood the test of time for 149 years.
Both of those can't be true at the same time...
Actually they both can be true, but you have to think about it really hard.
127 posted on
03/08/2018 7:00:31 AM PST by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Svartalfiar
That decision also specified that membership in the Union was indissoluble and permanent. Not really. Chief Justice Chase identified the two ways out: "The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States."
All the states, those leaving and those staying.
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