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  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

Look, in the Constitution for the following clause: "The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in a Supreme Court, which shall be the final arbiter and decider of all constitutional disputes within this Union, shall have no limits on its power but what it itself establishes, and shall be allowed to rewrite the constitution to the detriment of state sovereignty as it shall see fit." Don't see it? That's because it doesn't exist. The Supreme Court was never intended to decide such momentous measures, it was intended to settle law suits that could not be…  Read more

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…4mos4MO

Sometimes the states don’t get a choice in this situation, secession is one of them. Even the articles of confederation didn’t expressly allow the full secession of a state at will, a legal loophole was used to reach that point, which was exploited to create the new Constitution in the first place as a result, and no matter what ancient cases have been made, the cases more recent and strong in precedent trump them, thereby making that right disagreed upon at best, and rejected unless stated directly in the constitution as a right. The Supreme Court is designed to interpret the con…  Read more

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…4mos4MO

Sometimes the states don’t get a choice in this situation,

Explain why they wouldn't. Explain to me why states unanimously recognised at their founding as "free and independent" sovereign republics with the mass of right to their own self-government NOT have a choice ANY matter they did not expressly delegate the federal government authority to preside over in the confederal Contract we call the Constitution? That's what I asked for.

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