The requirements for seccession are easily found in the 10th Amendment. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government are left to the states, or to the people.
The Constitution is detailed in how a state can join the union, but makes no mention of how a state may leave. The fact that the Constitution does not discuss it, means it was a power deliberately left to the state. There is not the -slightest- indication that the founders meant the union to be a suicide pact, where one could enter and never leave.
The civil war only decided one thing. That is what happens when a populous industrial region fights a rural agricultual region.
Here here again!
This is refreshing to see...people defending an unalienable right. The nationalists, even the conservative one’s, don’t know what to do with this type of reasoning. They love their little “nuances” or “penumbras” of legal theory. But as I mentioned about, secession is NOT a legal question anyway. It’s a political question.
Conservative nationalists bother me the most. First, because I used to be one until I got off the power politics bandwagon and actually learned history. Second, because the consequences of the “nationalism” they promote, just their kind of nationalism leads exactly to the oligarchy we have today. Either way, progressive or conservative nationalism leads to the same place...crushing unalienable rights.
Let me off the nationalist train please; I want nothing to do with it. It’s very ugly, dirty, backroom deal making and immoral. No thanks.
Though certainly not perfect, I’ll take my chances with a Union of sovereign States where diversity and liberty have a much better chance.
That is what I was taught.