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To: Svartalfiar
That decision also specified that membership in the Union was indissoluble and permanent.

Not really. Chief Justice Chase identified the two ways out: "The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States."

All the states, those leaving and those staying.

128 posted on 03/08/2018 7:07:03 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

The thing with legalese, is that words have very specific meanings, and they matter. The term “except” immediately nullifies the terms “indissoluble” and “permanent”. If there is a way, any way, to get out, then there is no permanent, there IS dissolubility. If something is absolute, there can be no exceptions. If there are exceptions, then it is obviously not absolute.


130 posted on 03/08/2018 10:58:14 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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