Robert E. Lee: American Patriot and Southern Hero

Canda Free Press ^ | January 19, 2014 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

[rockrr]

So you are typing from under “my” rock? Good to know.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Sliming the southern threads as usual I see. Slither on little troll. You know tomorrow is a school day so your Mom will prolly be making you go to bed soon. :-)

[rockrr]

“Everyone is somebody’s troll - even you”

[DoodleDawg]

You answered your own question. Think about it.

I did and I'm not seeing it. A little help, please.

[DoodleDawg]

A State only has to ask permission to enter the union, not leave it.

Doesn't a state have to be granted permission to join by the other states?

Hell, even Lincoln said a State has the right to leave.

When did he say that?

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: “ A state or states could legally secede but it needs to be a mutually agreeable split among the states.

That gives pause to wonder what might have happened had the southern states not been so impetuous and hot-headed.”

Yes, I have heard of the legality argument for secession if the other states in the Union agree with the split. And, there were expressions by influential Americans at the time to let the South go its own way - especially among the abolitionists.

However, the Southern viewpoint was, “we voted ourselves into the Union, why can’t we vote ourselves out”?

If I remember correctly under the Constitution, a state “applies” for statehood from Congress. The proposed state must meet certain criteria before being considered. The Congress votes to “accept” the new state into the Union.

And, since it took the vote of all the existing states in the Union to allow a new state into the Union, wouldn’t the reverse to “leave” the Union require the vote of all the states to “accept” a state’s “dis-union” from the United States? I think that falls in line with what you were saying Chase’s position was on legal secession.