Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Boogieman
Yes, it was. You are misunderstanding what “prove” means in that clause. It does not mean that the States have to submit every act to Congress for approval, since that is never done and it would obviously completely dilute any power the states have. It merely states Congress must provide the general method for States to prove to other states that something is a valid act. This is a general process, as stated in the Constitution, so there is no special process for acts of secession, it would be the same as any other act. As long as the states published their acts of secession as they would any other law, then they satisfied that section. Even if they had not, it would not make the acts invalid, it would simply relieve the other states of their responsibility of giving full faith and credit to those acts.

There is federal property involved with a secession of a state, property paid for by all the states. Therefore a state must allow the Congress to prescribe the manner in which a state proves its act of secession.

94 posted on 06/10/2012 2:22:26 PM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies ]


To: Partisan Gunslinger

“There is federal property involved with a secession of a state, property paid for by all the states. Therefore a state must allow the Congress to prescribe the manner in which a state proves its act of secession.”

That’s just speculation on your part, the Constitution says no such thing. As I said, Congress already prescribed the manner in which acts of state are proved, and it can only prescibe that in general laws, according to the Constitution. It cannot make a new, specific law governing secessions separate from the rest of the acts to be proved. If the Acts of Secession were passed lawfully, and published to the rest of the States and the Federal Government by the same process as any other law, then they fully satisfied this condition.

That’s probably nobody ever cites this as some kind of barrier to secession, because it just isn’t.


98 posted on 06/10/2012 4:51:10 PM PDT by Boogieman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson