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To: Texaggie79
I have always asserted this. If it takes approval of the Fed Congress to change a state boundary how in the world would it be constitutional for a state to drop out of the union?

Simple, Congress has the power to mediate disputes between states of the Union, it's part of the Contract if you will. Seccession would be withdrawing from the Contract, due to previous violations by the other party or parties to it. Once a contract has been violated by one party, the other party has no obligation to uphold it. The North always wanted to have it's cake and eat it too. The Constitution also says that no state can be created out of another without that state's permission. West Virginia was created out of Virginia, without its permission. Virgina was still a state of the Union, if one also asserts that the Constitution forbides secession. You can't have Viginia be a state, and thus Lee and other be traitors, while at the same time it be OK to rip W. Va. away from Va.

282 posted on 04/03/2002 8:10:36 PM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato
Both are Unconstitutional.
296 posted on 04/03/2002 9:58:41 PM PST by Texaggie79
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