After providing links to the Tenth Amendment Center on nullification and to Whiskey & Gunpowder on secession as a solution to the federal debt crisis, Mr. Mentha adds this comment:
But wait – are we not forbidden to secede in the constitution imposed by US military occupation during Reconstruction? Article I Section 4 of our constitution reads “we shall ever remain a member of the American Union”. Let’s pick a few nits here… if ‘the several States’ determine that national government operating in the District of Columbia is injurious to themselves, and they band together to divorce themselves only from the political influence of the District of Columbia (not a State), one could easily argue they remain members of an American Union.
This argument is both far-fetched and unnecessary. Secession is Constitutional, as I have discussed on many occasions. Here is the short course from William Miller's Secession University.
Article I Section 35 of [North Carolina's] constitution encourages this possibility: “A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is absolutely necessary to preserve the
blessings of liberty”. Fundamental principles may only be interpreted as a return to philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, wherein the Founders agreed “…whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it,…”
This is all we need. We have God-given rights to the blessings of liberty. When government seeks to take them away from us, we must defend them.
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