“”No state has the authority to secede unilaterally.”
Which state has authority to deny secession?”
If not State has the authority to secede Unilaterally how is it that the 13 colonies manage to secede from the British empire?
You can’t support the existents of the United States and not support the causes of the Confederacy in 1861.
Just because Lincoln wanted to be the new King George and the northern States wanted to be the new British Empire doesn’t mean they had the right to. They nearly had the might to eventually(after 4 bloody years) overwhelm and enslave an independent nation less then half their size.
All Lincoln wished to do was perform his Constitutional duties. What's so oppressive about the US Constitution that it led to several states seceding even before Lincoln took office.
Jeez, not this one again. The Founding Fathers did not secede from the British Empire. They rebelled against it and had no illusions that what they were doing was illegal under British law and that they would have been hanged for it had they lost.
But one of the things about rebelling is that you roll the dice and you take your chances. Southerners won't admit that they rebelled because then they'd have to stop bitching about how unfair it was that they lost. I have no doubt that, had they won, they'd be proudly crowing about their revolution.
Couldn't agree w/you more:) Every time a poster indicates unilateral secession isn't authorized, I wonder....what entity are they thinking has supreme authority over any of the sovereign states?! Do they think a particular state, or group of states, has the right to direct the affairs of another sovereign state? I think not!
Just because Lincoln wanted to be the new King George and the northern States wanted to be the new British Empire doesn’t mean they had the right to.
I applaud your statement! And since Lincoln accomplished his diabolical goal, look what we have now.