ReillyT
Senior Member
Look, if you cannot state where the Constititoin specifically denies the states the right to secession, then the 10th amendment reserves that right to the states.
Saying so does not make it so.
The fact that you continue to dance around the subject, doing everything but provide that specific prohibition indicates that you understand this, and that you know there is no such provision.
This means you also know the SCotUS decision is crap.
The USSC decision may be poorly reasoned, but that is besides the point. You said that secession was legal, not merely that the USSC should have determined that secession was legal. As such, you are wrong.
By the way, what is wrong with referencing the preamble? It is a part of the Constitution. The USSC is (through Art. III and Marbury) empowered to interpret the Constitution. They did so. Why is an express provision necessary?