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To: cowboyway
There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution or any other legal document which precludes any state or group of states from seceding from the United States. That was true in 1861 and its true today.

The truly hilarious part is that the CSA constitution prohibited any state from seceding.

99 posted on 03/31/2008 9:40:59 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan
The truly hilarious part is that the CSA constitution prohibited any state from seceding.

Where exactly in the Constitution of the Confederate States of America does it prohibit secession?

102 posted on 03/31/2008 10:09:12 AM PDT by cowboyway (Did I say that out loud?)
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To: Sherman Logan
>> The truly hilarious part is that the CSA constitution prohibited any state from seceding. <<

The CSA said nothing about the issue of whether secession was legal, and had little to say about tariffs that wasn't already in the U.S. consitution. They basically copied about 90% of the U.S. constiution word-for-word, updated the language to be a bit more "modern" and put in major clause stating that slavery shall forever be legal and perpetual in the CSA.

Which gives me a good deal of insight on what was on the minds of the "founding fathers" of the CSA.

134 posted on 03/31/2008 8:05:12 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Don't interfere when you're enemy is destroying himself.)
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