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To: 4ConservativeJustices;non-sequitur
It was not legal under U.S. law, as the Judiciary Act of 1789 requires that civil controversies between the states be submitted to the Supreme Court.

The Act of 1790 recognized that the state acts were legal. Accordingly, they ceased being a state in the union.

What act?

I don't suppose the Supreme Court had ever heard of it, as they ruled in The Prize Cases of 1862 that the actions of "the so-called Confederate states" (their phrase) were rebellion against the lawful government and that the federal government was within the law to put down the rebellion.

The concept of legal unilateral state secession is null in our laws. It doesn't exist.

To buy off on such blather, we have to swallow the idea that the Constitutional Convention met, deliberated, and then changed nothing at all.

They well knew it was a fundamental change in the relation of the states and the federal government. They accepted it because the Articles were a total flop.

I remind you again that Jefferson Davis used language in the so-called constitution of the so-called CSA identical to language in the Constitution to maintain that the federal government COULD corece the states. He disgarded totally the idea of complete state sovereignty. Was he wrong?

N/S, it's no wonder they call me Whiskey poo poo.

The record blasts everything they say.

Walt

944 posted on 06/05/2002 3:43:23 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa
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To: WhiskeyPapa
"The record blasts everything they say."

In your mind, and only in your mind.

955 posted on 06/05/2002 10:21:25 AM PDT by Aurelius
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To: WhiskeyPapa
"N/S, it's no wonder they call me Whiskey poo poo."

"The record blasts everything they say."

The derision that is directed at you is not a result of the effectiveness of your argument, which is basically null and void, it is in response to your unique offensiveness - the only quality that distinguishes you on this forum.

976 posted on 06/06/2002 7:43:09 AM PDT by Aurelius
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