Replies

The Supremacy clause in the Constitution says that it is supreme over anything in the laws of any state. Nothing in state law may withstand it. Since an ordinance or declaration of secession is a "thing" in state law, it cannot stand against the Supremacy Clause.

And you'd be in the right if the Constitution had a provision disallowing secession, meaning the Supremacy Clause would have something to put its teeth into. But there isn't such a clause. Even a "one note pony", if the "one note" is an unequivocal truth, can finish the show.

One other point. I don't care what act you trot out, if it is patently unconstitutional, it is irrelevant no matter how many stacked courts claim otherwise. Read the document in question. If it allows something, or does not disallow something, then it can be done.

LTS

Read the document in question. If it allows something, or does not disallow something, then it can be done.

Then you disagree with Robert E. Lee.

Walt

One other point. I don't care what act you trot out, if it is patently unconstitutional, it is irrelevant no matter how many stacked courts claim otherwise. Read the document in question. If it allows something, or does not disallow something, then it can be done.

I'm not saying the system is, or ever was, perfect. But it must always be administered by real people. That is what CSA apologists like you would deny.

The Supreme Court has the power, and they shot down all these secession arguments, at least implicitly, with their ruling in the Prize Cases. There is just no two ways about it.

Walt