California should join Spain.
I thought this was going to be an article on how much Sessions sucks and it’s not OK.
Countries don’t allow secession because they lose tax dollars.
Who knew General Grant was the originator of the song “Imagine”!
"The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language."
President Davis, CSA
Sounds great, and they can go... as soon as they pay up their share of the $23T deficit.
Not sure exactly how much, but in the spirit of how a corporate merger/split affects the stock share price, $2T should cover it. For now.
> I say, let people go their own way. <
Down to what level? If, say, California has the right to secede from the U.S., does San Bernardino County have the right to secede from California? And does the town of Rialto have the right to secede from San Bernardino County?
Is there a point where it’s ‘sovereignty for me, but not for thee’?
Just askin’.
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,-- most sacred right--a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the teritory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. "
And in case anyone thinks this was a momentary lapse instead of a real statement of Lincoln's opinion on the subject, he said the same thing again in 1852.
Resolved, 1. That it is the right of any people, sufficiently numerous for national independence, to throw off, to revolutionize, their existing form of government, and to establish such other in its stead as they may choose.
So we should accept Lincoln's belief that people have a right to independence if they wish it.
California can go but they have to leave any forts, dockyards, post offices and post roads and any other property which belongs to the rest of us.