Just because the North won the Civil War by force of Arms doesn't mean that a SOVERIGN STATE doesn't have the Constitutional right to secede from the Union. Please point to the Article , Section, and Clause in the Constitution that stops a State form seceding from the Union... I'll save you time there is none.
In fact, our forefather's feared that the 'federal government' may one day become a tyrant and the Declaration of Independence' clearly sums up the duty of a free people to throw off a tyrant... and when necessary to "institute new government, laying its Foundation on such Principals, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Our founders established Constitutional safe guards to restrain the Federal Government. However, over time these have been eroded by ill fated men and the corruption associated with the institutions of all governments. Over time we have lost our way and the Constitution has been relegated to a bygone era and is now nothing more than a historical inconvenience to those in government. Those safe guards no longer exist as intended and the Federal Government has grossly exceeded its Constitutional Authority... rendering the contract between the federal government and the several States (the Constitution) null and void. Where there is no contract for unity there is no UNION or REPUBLIC... hence, the States no longer need to be bound to a voided contract/Constitution.
The Declaration of Independence is a fundamental founding document... the cornerstone of our Republic. It clearly states that governments are created among men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed AND WHENEVER any form of Government (including our present form) becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter OR TO ABOLISH IT, and to institute a new government.
The right to secession is a GOD given right... too liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is the right of men to establish governments that provide for the common safety and happiness of those to be governed.
Our present government no longer abides by these precepts and has clearly overstepped its limits under the Constitution, too engage in tyranny ... looting the wealth of our nation and its people for its own purposes. As such, it is the DUTY and Responsibility of a free people to throw off the bonds of such a government and to either reestablish those original articles and precepts that once held them secure in liberty or to form a new government as they see fit.
The right of secession is found in the Declaration of Independence... and there is no article or clause that prohibits it in the Constitution.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered... Thomas Pain.
If these crooked Politicians don't get a grip on reality, and Oust Obama, then the States should Secede from the Federal Govt., and let DC stand on it's own! Then we'll see just how long DC can survive!