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To: 4ConservativeJustices
And I will repeat, the Constitution was not violated. The provisions of Article IV were followed. The only thing that would make it invalid would be if you could show that the reformed legislature of Virginia was illegally constituted and in order to do that you would have to show what law they broke. Can you do that?
392 posted on 04/06/2002 12:07:50 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
... what law they broke. Can you do that?

Amendment X.

"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."
Article IV, Section 1.
"Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Changing the rules because the federal government didn't like it is a violation of Article I, Section 9 (ex post facto legislation).

Article IV, Section 3.

"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Note the requirement for multiple states, and multiple legislatures voting.
411 posted on 04/06/2002 5:53:14 PM PST by 4CJ
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