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minus-squareWoodScientist@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·9 months ago“But it’s not legal!” Have you learned nothing the past three months? Laws are what we make of them. A state seceding is a simple process: The state passes an act to allow it. The sitting president endorses the idea and agrees to let them go peacefully. That’s it. The United States Constitution itself was illegally written, an exercise in simple willful power. State secession works the same way.
“But it’s not legal!”
Have you learned nothing the past three months? Laws are what we make of them.
A state seceding is a simple process:
The state passes an act to allow it.
The sitting president endorses the idea and agrees to let them go peacefully.
That’s it. The United States Constitution itself was illegally written, an exercise in simple willful power. State secession works the same way.