States Don’t Need To Petition To Leave The Union via ACGR's News With Attitude

States Don’t Need To Petition To Leave The Union

November 19, 2012

J.J. Jackson

11/18/2012

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You might have heard stories this past week about states that are petitioning the President for permission to secede from The Union.  The Union, being The United States of America.  But this actually is just sloppy reporting by the main stream media.

First of all, what are being filed are petitions on the White House’s website by groups of citizens.  In order for the President to review them, or do whatever it is he does with them, they have to get a certain number of signatories.  These are not, I repeat, NOT, petitions by the actual States themselves.  Anyone reporting otherwise is simply wrong.

Second of all, it is a pointless exercise because States do not need to petition the federal government, much less the messiah, to secede.  They simply say, “We’re seceding.”  Then they secede.

See, the Constitution spells out the powers of our federal government.  It also clearly states that, “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.”  That would be in Amendment Ten.

So, look through the Constitution and see if you can find any mention of the federal government having the power to keep States from leaving the Union.  No?  Well, that means the power is reserved by the States.  Not even Obama, sitting upon his throne in the White House, has anything to say about it.

Now, maybe you are scratching your head.  Because, perhaps you have been taught that the Civil War settled, once and for all, the issue of whether or not States could secede from The Union.  The southern states tried it.  The north attacked and said, “Oh, no you don’t!  Once in The Union, always in The Union!”

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