WorldWatcher
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The Tenth Amendment recognizes 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."
And suppression of insurrection is explicitly authorized for Congress.
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INSURRECTION. A rebellion of citizens or subjects of a country against its government.
How is it that States with a majority (assumption) of their citizens wanting to be independent peacefully, considered insurrection?
*Disclaimer-- I do not support secession..but I do support STATES RIGHTS
Because they are part of the United States, which is a superior (has in higher not necessarily better) part of the government. Summary secession without the consent of Congress would be insurrection against the United States.
I also don't support secession and do support state powers as defined under the 10th Amendment, however insurrection suppression is a Congressional authority.
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