“The Preamble to the US Constitution states: ‘We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, … do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.’”
Keep reading: “The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.”
But if you want to argue counties as well as states have the right to secede from the union I guess I am obligated to listen with an open mind.
I’m not arguing about that. I started by asking a question about people, not by making an argument about anything. It went South from there, so to speak.
Post 4 quotes the Tenth Amendment (“The 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.”) in support of the position that “The states had an absolute right to withdraw from the union…because of the clear language of the 10th amendment to the constitution…”. Note that the position did not address “the people”.
My question was: “Does that mean the people of a municipality can, on their own say so, secede from the county and state the municipality is in or that the people of a county in a state can, on their own say so, secede from the state or from the United States?”
As I wrote, it went South from there, so to speak.