[KrisKrinkle]

Some of Ya'll/Youse need to broaden your perspectives. Try thinking about it from another point of view.

Based on 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.) could one or more States be ejected from the Union by the other States?

If individual States can elect to secede from the others, why can't the others elect to eject individual States?

Can we Please get rid of California, Massachusetts and some of the others (how about selected parts of them)?

I am not advocating a personal position, but just throwing something into the mix to see what accumulates at the top.

(How many can I reply to at once? Is it limited at all?)

[Twodees]

I agree with you on the need to get rid of some states, but it's pretty obvious that an amendment would be necessary which provided for the ouster of one or more states by the others. Kicking Massachusetts and Illinois out may have prevented the war. Kicking her and her sisters California and Maryland out today may very well prevent the coming conflict.

[justshutupandtakeit]

No. Those powers are not left with the states. The only real meaning of the 10th amendment is that it left police powers over internal state affairs with those states. Powers such as public health regulation, courts of laws and the rights to determine who practice there, law enforcement officers etc.

Since the constitution guarantees the states a republican government a state would not be ejected but its government changed to a republican one.

Actually the true essence of the Civil War was the establishment of true republican governments where there was a Slaveocracy, a tyranny established without the consent of 80-90% of the population. When the North forced the South to allow Blacks to vote it had to change the rules of sufferage in the North as well. Ironically, the war forced both sections against their wills and intentions to make the electorate more representative.