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[LuckyTheDog]

A long rambling, long post which asserts that states have the "right" to secede: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2281160/posts

From the post:

The Tenth Amendment Despite all the above, and assuming that the Supreme Court could rule on the subject, there really was only one conclusion which the Court to reach, within the text of the Constitution. The simple fact is that the four corners of the document do not contain any reference whatsoever to the subject of a state leaving the Union. There is no permission, nor is there any prohibition. This lack leads us to look at the Tenth Amendment, which states that any powers not delegated to the Federal Government are reserved to the States or to the people. It should thus be incontrovertible that the power to leave the Union is a reserved power specifically held by the States or people under the Tenth Amendment. Recall that the people of the State of Texas voted to secede in a statewide election and that the election was held at the behest of the state legislature. In seceding Texas could very easily be seen as simply exercising a constitutional power reserved for it by the Tenth Amendment.

The responses are overwhelmingly positive. Some quotes:

People have a right to choose their own destiny and no government, particularly a morally corrupt one such as the one currently in power in Washington, can take that away. They didn't have that right in 1861 and they don't have it now.

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Why is it that only our side is restricted by the law? If Texas wants to secede, they should simply do it. And the Supreme Court and Congress can hold all the hearings they want, who cares? States should simply defy what’s going on in Congress, and aggressively rebel against any repercussions attempted by the commie vermin running our country.

COULD WE PLEASE SHOW SOME GUTS ON OUR SIDE, EVERYBODY?

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Damn right. Texas should tell Washington to shove it where the sun don't shine. Texas has seaports, oil, farm land, manufacturing, etc, and can survive without the corrupt rotten Washington we have now. We are no longer a free Country, but under King Obama and his corrupt machine. We have evolved into a Communists nation.

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Lincoln and his supporters wanted a centralized ,national government and they instituted it.
Hasn't anyone noticed the modern Communists speak of Lincoln with approval?

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The wealth that would move to Texas would be outstanding. Professionals, business, billions of dollars, etc. They could do it and hurt the Washington a22hats big time. Sure it would be hard at first, but within a short time Texas would be the richest Country in the World. Texas has a military now, every branch of the Service. They could give those Federal units a choice, join Texas or get the hell out. America is gone.

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I don’t give a d*rn what the Federal Government wants, as a citizen I have just as much right to interpret..withhold my delegated authority to govern as the Supreme Court has..and it is getting high time we as US Citizens get together and “seceede” or Re-”Indepedence Declaration” in order to preserve our liberty, peacefully on our part-of course!