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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Amy J who wrote (55)11/4/2004 12:01:28 PM
From: SilentZ  Respond to of 1968
 
I'm not surprised it may be legal. It makes sense that it would be, given the suspicion that many of our Founding Fathers had toward the idea of central government.

>But a President may choose not to recognize it:

I just somehow think that the current administration would say "Good Riddance!"

-Z



To: Amy J who wrote (55)11/4/2004 3:08:09 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1968
 
"States had a legal right to secede, affirmed by the idea of
states'rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Doctrine of Nullification."

But a President may choose not to recognize it:

That's the clinker. Bush and the red states would fight this all the way.

ted


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