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To: FLT-bird

“The constitution must be adopted in toto and forever. It has so been adopted by the other states.” James Madison


50 posted on 02/02/2020 11:21:43 AM PST by OIFVeteran
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To: OIFVeteran

Nowhere in the constitution does it say a sovereign state may not leave. In fact, in the federalist papers Madison specifically said a state is only bound by its voluntary act of ratifying the constitution.


63 posted on 02/02/2020 12:16:57 PM PST by FLT-bird
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Re: “The constitution must be adopted in toto and forever. It has so been adopted by the other states.”

Are those words also written in the Constitution? I don't recall seeing them.

In any event, Madison made that statement when the USA population was less than 4 million, and almost every American citizen could trace their ancestors to a half dozen countries in northern Europe.

Today, our population is 330 million, and barely half of them can trace their ancestry to northern Europe.

In 2020, the USA is un-governable.

We still exist only because of our exceptional productivity, and because a small majority of us are still guided by Judeo-Christian principles.

72 posted on 02/02/2020 12:28:41 PM PST by zeestephen
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