PeterS wrote:
Article 1, Sec. 8 grants congress the right to suppress all i**********ns so while the law not specific it is certainly implied (unless a state can secede without an i**********n) and I'm sorry if the Court doesn't meet your approval; are we to assume that every ruling where the majority share the same ideology the ruling spurious? If so there are a number I would like to see stricken...
Try and keep up. A secession is not necessarily an i**********n. Perhaps it was in the case of South Carolina, but it most certainly was not in the case of Virginia.
Tenth Amendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.I know you aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but let me try to simplify it for you. (If I use words you don't understand, let me know and I will provide you with a definition in the event you are incapable of procuring one yourself.)
I**********n is rising up against your government, and almost always has connotations of violence
Secession is the act of withdrawing from that government. When one becomes a citizen of another country, one secedes from his or her former country.
I**********n is an attempt to o*******w or damage the government., whereas
secession is simply a severance of ties with no intention of harming the government you are withdrawing from. It is simply giving up your citizenship on a large scale. It was perfectly legal then and still is now for a person to voluntarily surrender their US citizenship, and doing this on a large scale is called secession.
South Carolina formally seceded from the Union before any violence was perpetrated. Had they attacked Fort Sumter BEFORE their lawful secession, it would have been an i**********n and the Union would have been justified in using force to put it down.
Virginia seceded as an independent state or republic, not as a member of the Confederacy. They did not become a member of the Confederacy until they were invaded by Union troops after their stated desire to remain neutral.
I know that some of these concepts are hard for you to grasp, especially since I did not provide any pictures, diagrams or illustrations, but do try to come in out of the rain occasionally.