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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This was decided in 1865, as I recall.

Legislatively, judicially, or just by the fact that the Union won the war?
5 posted on 08/13/2017 9:44:27 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Yes.


7 posted on 08/13/2017 9:48:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Texas v. White (1869), U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that the United States is “an indestructible union” from which no state can secede.


24 posted on 08/13/2017 11:21:48 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: SoConPubbie

#3: Might makes right.


42 posted on 08/14/2017 5:09:29 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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