Posted on 06/22/2024 9:47:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
OTOH, there’s a movement in Alberta to join the United States.
Just a lot of “Hot Air”.
“Texas is uniquely poised to lead this sort of movement, assuming it takes hold. When Texas finally joined the union in 1845, it included provisions in its incorporating documents that reserved its right to secede...”
Mr. Lincoln and Gen. Grant may not have read the fine print on that one.
IIRC, the States of New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia reserved the right of secession, in writing, when they ratified the Constitution. However, the subsequent adoption of the 14th Amendment (which states in part, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States") likely limits any State's right to unilateral secession.
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Just so everyone knows, secessionism is politics, and cessationism is religion.
Haha!!
Could they impeach the blue states and throw them out of the union? That would make more sense.
Ah, didn’t the Dems try this crap around 1861?
Didn’t work out too well.
This is not serious. If anything, though, Vermont and Hawaii have had more talk about secession than New Hampshire. The New Hampshire proposal was to secede if the national debt got to 40 trillion. The proposal was voted down by a large margin. If anybody does try to get out of their share of the debt, yeah, there could be a civil war.
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“Could they impeach the blue states and throw them out of the union? That would make more sense.”
My “If I were King” wish is to kick out all the blue people just like we did with the Tories in 1783. We keep every inch of our country (except maybe Hawaii and Puerto Rico),
Fishtank ‘mart!
Then came Alabama and took her by the hand
Next, quickly Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star,..."
“Just a lot of “Hot Air”.”
Agree, unless the structures are first put in place, at the state level, to secede, trying to do so would be futile, as the first thing the US government would do is freeze everyone’s bank accounts. Game over.
You’re right.
And anyone who disagrees should take a look at the states’ budgets.
State mouths are writing checks their butts can’t cash.
States don’t have the money and talk is cheap.
IIRC, there was no “provision” for the Brits in America to secede from England, but they did anyway.
The 9th and 10th Amendments say otherwise.
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