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To: JCBreckenridge; rockrr
The Constitution says that the Constitution is the law of the land.

You don't get to declare that it isn't anymore, that it doesn't apply to you.

Have you absorbed anything people have said to you? Does it all just go in one ear and out the other?

Unilateral secession doesn't work. It doesn't provide an authoritative and accepted structure to settle things.

When it's tried it usually results in war.

The Constitution is not a treaty. It's a contract.

The country isn't a loose alliance of independent or sovereign states, but a federation in which sovereignty and authority are shared, so dissolving the union isn't something any part of it can do at will.

The attempt at unilateral secession was a mistake. We can see now that it was a mistake and how it was a mistake, and we can learn from the mistake.

You may not see it or want to see it or may wish that it was otherwise. Maybe that's understandable, but it's your own problem, not anybody else's.

621 posted on 03/17/2013 12:21:35 PM PDT by x
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To: x; JCBreckenridge

I think JCB is just funning with us now - no one can be that obdurate - can they?


622 posted on 03/17/2013 12:49:11 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: x

The only state to ever unilaterally secede was South Carolina. After Mississippi seceded then it was no longer “unilateral”.


625 posted on 03/17/2013 3:46:30 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: x

“Unilateral secession doesn’t work. It doesn’t provide an authoritative and accepted structure to settle things.”

And war does?


643 posted on 03/17/2013 5:40:13 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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