[Bob Buchholz]

I find it amazing how many posters on this thread have cited the Constitution. Perhaps they can show me where the Constitution:

Where the government can take your land to build shopping centers.

Where the government can try someone in multiple courts because they don’t like the ruling that one court comes out with.

Where the government can require you to fill out census papers including information that is none of their business(not just the 10 year census but anytime they feel like it) or threaten you with jail time.

Where the government can take your money or property and give it to anyone it feels is more deserving.

Where the government can tell you who you must or must not hire or fire in your own business.

Where the government can tell you who you must or must not rent your own property to and how much you can charge.

Where the government can tell you what you can and cannot say within 90 days of an election.

Where the government can take your children away from you if they do not agree your method of discipline or child rearing.

Where the government can require you to pay to have your children indoctrinated with ideas that are foreign to your own beliefs.

Where the government can increase sentences and penalties because you were ‘thinking’ improperly when you acted.

Where the government can enslave its people by taking any amount of their earnings that they see fit.

Where the government can tell you what you can or cannot build on your own private property because you may be causing pain to some toad.

Were the government ............. you get the idea.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It all depends on who’s in charge when the attempt is made.

[Centurion2000]

"Broken down by race, the highest percentage agreeing with the right to secede was among Hispanics (43%) and African-Americans (40%). Among white respondents, 17% said states or regions should have the right to peaceably secede."

I guess because Hispanics and Northern Urban Blacks have never really felt the sting of Sherman, or its aftereffects.

[cpdiii]

Actually Texas does have that right. When we became part of the United States we were a sovereign republic. One of the conditions of our joining the USA was the right of succession and the right to break the state up into 5 separate states if we so desired.

[tophat9000]

It would be better to just kick a few states out.. and better yet just a few city's or county's here and there ...

[Spok]

“Zogby:One in Five Americans Believe States Have the Right to Secede (43% of Hispanics)”

I wonder how many Americans know if this issue has ever come up before?

[nitzy]

I say we let all 50 states secede. Once they are all individual sovereign states, they can then be loosely tied to one another by a document which will limit what the federal government can do. Maybe we can add an "amendment" that would give any rights not specifically enumerated in this new document to the states.

I am just throwing ideas out off the top of my head.....