These issues were pretty much resolved in 1865.. Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the US Constitution is not a compact of the states, but a compact of the people of the United States. Your arguments were debated for a long time and finally settled by a horrific war. Reason suggests not repeating same.
The issue was not resolved by the Civil War.
The only issue resolved by the Civil War was: Can the North crush the South by burning, razing, and murdering?
The answer was Yes.
[ These issues were pretty much resolved in 1865.. Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the US Constitution is not a compact of the states, but a compact of the people of the United States. Your arguments were debated for a long time and finally settled by a horrific war. Reason suggests not repeating same. ]
But isn’t Holding hostage a state with say 90% of the population wanting to leave the union essentially illegal if not violating the principle of self governance?
Your arguments were debated for a long time and finally settled by a horrific war.
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At the cost of over 600,000 lives and considerable economic devastation and debt. Was the war worth the cost? A question for the ages.
These things are never decided by laws.
They are decided by facts and events - power, money, debt, violence, common purpose or disunity.
The Roman empire was united, until corruption, debt, inflation, decline and imperial overreach made people in the provinces decide they were better off out - and the emperors could do nothing about it.
Session does not mean war. The pussies that run the Federal Government wouldn’t do a thing to stop a state from leaving. No political will and the standing Army is to small anyway.