Posted on 03/18/2023 12:30:10 PM PDT by thegagline
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,....
What they are proposing isn’t “Secession”. They aren’t trying to formally withdraw from the United States.
Secondly, why would Congress need to get involved? If the states want to do some re-arranging of their borders, why not? It would seem to me if this were something they wanted to do, they would have no problem with it.
Ultimately I think this is a reflection or a legacy on the Reynolds case decided by the supreme court - less populated counties or rural areas have had no defense against the large city centers for some time now.
Or put another way, what did you guys think would happen??
Too late. Idaho is going woke.
Texas should also say it will repudiate its share of the national debt.
THAT alone would put handcuffs on Fed.gov, the leftists who control it, and their thousands of social-engineering schemes.
Good luck with that, Mr. Nash. Conservatives are not ok with open borders, dope growing, dope using, or baby killing.
“Too late. Idaho is going woke.”
It’s immigration by coastal parasites that have killed their host and have moved on to another.
I believe the problem about secession was ruled upon in 1869.
Texas vs White
https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-v-White
Texas v. White, (1869), U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that the United States is “an indestructible union” from which no state can secede.
Sounds curiously like slavery.
Exactly
Any city that reaches population of half a million will be declared a "City-State" and be spun off into it's own entity.
It will be awarded one Representative and one Senator to represent it's interests nationally.
Too late. Idaho is going woke.
Pretty much. I give them another decade.
Pretty sure the parasites stayed put on the coast.
What is needed is clean and honest elections. The political climate in many states will look a lot different.
The problems here are that the libs in Salem NEED to hold dominion over everyone in the state. As they would be nothing without the subjudgated masses. Secondly, if the population of Oregon were to plummet, that would impact congressional representation.
So, long story long, there’s no way they’re going to let them go.
Isn’t it more the crazy/normal divide?
Secondly, why would Congress need to get involved?
The late Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson predicted all of this with his commentary on the USSC ruling of Reynolds vs Sims. The prediction was more in the context of what it would do to Illinois then other states but the principle would be the same. He said this ruling would allow the urban centers with their large populations to dominate and make subservient the more rural sections of the state. He specifically pointed out that this would allow Chicago to completely dominate the state and render the other counties\sections economic slaves to the excesses of the city. That prediction has more then played out to be true in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, California, etc.
This is part and parcel of the continued effort from the Wlison Administration, accelerated by the FDR regime to now, to imbalance the republic-democracy arrangement of the Founding Fathers. End goal is to remove the “republic” nature of our government from our government. Create the “mob-ocracy” our Founders feared. Ask supposedly educated people about the definitions of “republic “ and “democracy “. The answers you get will get is various combinations of hilarity, sadness & frightfullness.
If they were trying to secede from the United States, you might have a point.
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