question was settled in texas v white. look that up.
semp
Been there, done that a long time ago.
For you:
Dred Scott Decision (ruling black people aren't citizens); look that up.
Plessy v Furguson (allowing separate-but-equal); look that up.
Korematsu v United States (upholding Japanese internment camps); look that up.
The idea that every SC decision is correct and in accordance with the US Constitution has been disproven repeatedly. Texas v White is just one more example like the ones listed above.
Why was Texas v White an incorrect decision? Because of the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."Study the Constitution all you like, bring in any learned scholar you like but no one can find a Constitutional prohibition on secession, nor will anyone find a Constitutional sanction of any kind allowing federal coercion to force a state to remain in a perpetual union.
Virginia, New York and Rhode Island all conditionally ratified the Constitution. Virginia was the first state to state explicitly that she would only ratify the Constitution as long as she reserved the right to leave the Union so created by it. Both New York and Rhode Island attached essentially the same condition to their ratification. This brings Compact Law into the discussion. This condition now applied to every state in the Compact.
In fact, as has been shown above, neither Adams nor Jefferson held that the Union was a perpetual Hotel California, where once you check in you can never leave.
Further yet, look to the KEY Founding Document, the Declaration of Independence:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."The USA came into being by seceding from Great Britain. The can be no doubt, especially after reading the Declaration, that our Founders believed the people had the right to secede.
Also from the Declaration:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."I believe the time has arrived to separate.
The question is will the despots allow a peaceful separation. No one wants another Civil War I would hope.
