Comments on: Is Secession Constitutional? http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/is-secession-constitutional/ The Tenther Grapevine Wed, 22 May 2013 04:03:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: @twitimbo http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/is-secession-constitutional/#comment-1979 @twitimbo Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:59:15 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=3013#comment-1979 I would like to point out that this is using precedent or case law as our judicial authoritarian friends like to call it but precedence/case law is not in the constitution and is something we don't have to discuss since it is not written law whatsoever and the constitution gives states almost unlimited powers and one of those power is to tear of the contract so sucession is legal.

]]> By: Monorprise http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/is-secession-constitutional/#comment-1978 Monorprise Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:12:23 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=3013#comment-1978 To be honest when reading the case records of Texas v White, I found the level of one sided arrogances and political posturing amazing, in that they seemed to expect anyone to take this court seriously as a court of law rather then a panel of inquisition.
They were basically word for word quoting the opinion of Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address,(It should be noted that Lincoln had appointed many of the so called "justices") while utterly ignoring the relevant opinions of our founders and wording of our constitution on the case. To top it all off the exceptions they named of revolution was perhaps the most hypocritical of all exceptions, in that what is a revolution if it is not what the 11 southern States did?
How is what the 11 southern states did at all significantly different then what the 13 original colonies did?

Was the "American revolution" not a "revolution" in the courts opinion? Furthermore if the central court legal authority has the power to in any such power to define what is and is not a revolution then how is it that any such revolution could exist as the American revolution supposedly existed?

The British did not consent to us leaving the British empire, in fact they said it was illegal, thats why they waged war upon us!

The Courts ruling was not only a betrayal of the American constitution and American traditions it was in itself in utter self-contradiction.
Either the court was right, or America never had the legitimate authority to form the U.S. Constitution and thus the authority of that court in the first place.

Both cant be true, because they are mutually exclusive, it was either unlawful to leave the British Empire and form any legitimate government out of it, and thus the court had no standing on the matter, or the court itself was wrong.

The only conclusion one can draw from this is might makes right, and that the south should have started the war preemptively. If you want to live in perpetual fear of each-other, then accept that conclusion.

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