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To: jdege
Every State in the Union had surrendered its right to unilaterally secede.

After all of the fighting and dying and "reconstructing", the US Constitution is STILL silent on the subject. The Yankees couldn't even get that right. EVERYONE then and now knows that an amendment like that would be DOA, well except you.

28 posted on 12/07/2010 12:02:43 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
What don't you understand about the words “perpetual” and “union”?

"Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states...”

"Article XIII.”

"Every State shall abide by the determination of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.”

http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/artconf.shtml

84 posted on 12/07/2010 1:03:10 PM PST by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground - the Hogwarts of Stupid.)
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