NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
Silly you.Because the states that decided to leave had a contract with other states in the Union. The Union gave them blood and treasure when they needed protection. One party of an agreement does not have the right to just quit the contract and agreement for some arbitrary or random reason.
Amendment 10.
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
There's nothing in the constitution that prohibits a state from leaving and so the right to do so is reserved by the states.
Secession in and of itself is not treason.They chose treason instead. Shooting at federal troops is treason in the manner that they did.
The Supremacy Clause prohibits a State from leaving because the Supremacy Clauses binds a State to compliance with federal/Constitutional law and secession represents an arbitrary repudiation of those obligations.
Additionally, people in a state are residents, but above that they are US citizens. US citizens are protected by the US Constitution and federal law in all rights and privileges coming from that law.
No state can arbitrarily revoke a US citizen's citizenship and thus deny that citizen the rights, privileges, and protections that come with that citizenship.
I have already exploded your idiotic "logic."
There's not the slightest shred of evidence that the Supremacy clause prevents a state from leaving, any more than a mortgage prevents you from selling your house. Federal laws are supreme over state laws only so long as that state is a member of the Union. If it chooses to leave, the supremacy clause no longer applies.
If a state secedes, anyone living there can choose to remain a U.S. citizen. However, he will be an alien resident in a foreign country.
The Supremacy Clause prevents a state from leaving legally because no state can leave without violating federal law.
I am a citizen living in the United States of America. My property is in the United States. No state can deprive me legally of my right to live as a US citizen on US soil. No state has the right to make me a foreigner in my own land.