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To: Shooter 2.5

Doesn't matter.
The question isn't slavery, the question is the right to secede. Most states adopted the Constitution but specifically reserved the right to secede later.


179 posted on 01/29/2007 10:51:09 AM PST by Little Ray
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To: Little Ray
Most states adopted the Constitution but specifically reserved the right to secede later.

I don't suppose you have anything to support this claim, do you? It's true that a couple of states did attempt to ratify with their fingers crossed behind their backs, but, apart from the issue of whether such a thing is legal, it was hardly "most."

180 posted on 01/29/2007 10:56:07 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Little Ray
Most states adopted the Constitution but specifically reserved the right to secede later.

Total Neo-confederate myth. Three states ratified with a request (not a demand) that a Bill of Rights be amended to the Constitution -- New York, Virginia and North Carolina.

No one at the time of adoption considered these ratification resolutions to be either conditional or in any way allowing unilateral secession.

184 posted on 01/29/2007 12:55:50 PM PST by Ditto
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