Thursday, September 18, 2008

More on the constitutionality of secession

As further evidence of the Constitutionality of secession, I submit an opinion that a Georgia Supreme Court judge wrote in 1868 [Judge Harris's dissent in Chancely v. Bailey and Cleveland, 37 Georgia Reports 532]:

“If any prominent advocate of the Federal Constitution had … intimated an opinion, that by ratification of the Federal Constitution, the states surrendered their separate individuality and sovereignty as States, such was the extreme jealousy for the maintenance of State sovereignty, [that] such an opinion… would have led to the prompt and overwhelming rejection of that instrument.”

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