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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: longnshort who wrote (339818)6/8/2007 2:32:41 PM
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and it doesn't say a state can't leave.

Exactly. Its ambiguous. Reasonable people can have different opinions on the issue. Its a little unclear exactly how it was understood at the time of the signing. The constitution itself certainly doesn't make it clear. Even if it was somewhat "understood", absent concrete language to the effect that states could secede, its a bit much to say any effort to stop them had no justification, and was clearly an aggressive and immoral act. Ideally such questions are worked out peacefully. Unfortunately neither side was very patient in this case, and so you get more dead Americans then from every other war in our history combined.
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