Re: Digest #2000-103

Nik Taylor wrote:

> But as for a peaceful secession, there's still nothing in the
> Constitution that says "No state may secede from the United States",
But the converse is also true that it does not say that they can. The
verdict produced by the civil war and now accepted by every
constitutional scholar I have ever read is that once they join, they
are in for good.
--
Brad Coon
bcoon@imt.net

Somedays when you wake up, its just not worth chewing through
the leather straps.