[The Green Goblin]

What is NOT provided for in the constitution is the unilateral secession of individual states.

Nowhere in the Constitution is the power of secession explicity prohibited to the states. Thus, under Article X, that power is fully reserved to the states, or the people.

[muleboy]

Absolutely correct!

Thank you for your exquisitely simple refutation of a shamelessly vain assertion of the legality of state-sponsored terrorism circa 1861.

[r9etb]

Nowhere in the Constitution is the power of secession explicity prohibited to the states. Thus, under Article X, that power is fully reserved to the states, or the people.

You meant to say Amendment X, of course.

However, insurrection, treason, and many other things that the Confederate states did, are among those things that are explicitly prohibited, and the Federal Government is granted the power to deal with such things.

Your argument seems to rest on the idea that Secession is not insurrection. This runs counter the language in Article VI, which explicitly makes the laws and constitutions of the several states inferior to the Constitution.

Not to mention the fact that the specifics of the actual secession cannot be viewed as anything other than an insurrection.

[Illbay]

Nowhere in the COnstitution is MURDER explicitly forbidden.

Therefore, in your opinion, the right to MURDER is reserved to the states, or to the people.

Cockeyed, as usual.