Quote Originally Posted by KevDen2005 View Post
Can you also reference the line that says I should pay for socialized health care. I am sure you probably can't. So the Constitution has been interpreted to say when written and signed that a state may not secede. Once a state has joined there will be no leaving the union. I believe we had a civil war that started about secession.
But which act was illegal the secession or the war? I suppose the victor is right? What do you make of the fact the Constitutional Convention considered and rejected language that would allow the use of Union force against a member state for failing to fulfill it's duties under the articles. Or the term "perpetual" was expressly omitted from the Constitution despite much of the Articles of Confederation being copied. If the Second Amendment assures the right of protection from tyrannical government through means of force but not through peaceful secession? The Union was formed by the states for their mutual benefit and was not initially ratified by all thirteen states, it makes no sense they would interpret the use of armed force against a member state that no longer felt they benefited from the union. Having just seceded from a government they considered oppressive it is absurd to consider the framers would have made the very act that allowed the creation of the Union illegal.