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To: AvOrdVet; DustyMoment

Since you have decided to go beyond the Constitution, can a state be expelled? Can half of a state decide to secede from a state? Can a state decide to secede and decide that they would like to be annexed by another nation- can South Florida decide that they would like to seced from Florida and the US and decide to become a part of Cuba. Can a foreeable Latin majority in Mexico decide to hold a vote and decide that Texas is now a state of Mexico? Can Saudi Arabia annex Detroit’s large muslim population if they hold a vote and agree to it?

None of these are in the Constitution, any of these example covered by the 10th Amendment?


378 posted on 04/26/2009 1:27:42 PM PDT by awake-n-angry
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To: awake-n-angry
None of these are in the Constitution, any of these example covered by the 10th Amendment?

Methinks you've drifted from the sublime to the absurd.

G'night!

381 posted on 04/26/2009 8:04:18 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: awake-n-angry

***Can half of a state decide to secede from a state?***

Irrelevant to the conversation, but if the state wants to split itself in half, why not? It has to be the state’s decision though. Besides, you’re comparing apples to oranges. One arbitrary part of a state wanting to secede from another is different than a sovereign state seceding from a union it created. The state preceded the union. The arbitrary part of the hypothetical state wanting to secede did not precede the state.

***an a state decide to secede and decide that they would like to be annexed by another nation***

Yes.

***can South Florida decide that they would like to seced from Florida and the US and decide to become a part of Cuba.***

You essentially asked this same thing when you asked if half a state could secede from the other half.

***Can a foreeable Latin majority in Mexico decide to hold a vote and decide that Texas is now a state of Mexico?***

No. That’s for the state of Texas to decide.

***Can Saudi Arabia annex Detroit’s large muslim population if they hold a vote and agree to it?***

No. Again that’s for the state to decide.


399 posted on 04/28/2009 9:48:40 AM PDT by djsherin (Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
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