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Originally Posted by The Reaper
...and eliminating Constitutional rights to the States they forcibly retained in the Union.
TR
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I believe the argument was that the original 13 colonies probably possessed the right of succession since they were wholly owned “corporations” prior to ratification of the Constitution. Subsequent territories (the future states) were purchased with the “blood and treasure” of the total union of states. Perhaps these states and territories could have bought their “freedom” from the union…sort of like indentured statehood.
Pat