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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (119797)	12/28/2000 8:42:00 AM
From: donjuan_demarco	Respond to of 769667

I don't see why you should be surprised, there is no legitimate political perspective to the issue of whether a state can secede (i.e., it is not a republican vs. democrat issue). I don't see any basis to deny a state the right to secede, though we could argue about the mechanism for doing so, I don't think a simple majority vote by the state or its legislators would be enough, I think you would need a supermajority. But if 70% of the citizens of Texas wanted to secede, I don't see the problem with allowing them to do so. On the other hand, if Kansas wanted to secede, there are some practical problems involved, as no one could get in or out of Kansas without going through U.S. territory.