SerScot wrote: Therefore, I don't understand why you are presenting this argument to me. Your reductionist objection of individual homes secedeing from their nations is non-sensical. The retained power of secession only works in the US because States are sovreigns (counties and municipaities are not) and because of the retained powers clause of the 10th amendment States retain those powers not expressly denied to them.
heh...presenting it to you cuz you defend it most often and most firmly.
It ain't no fun [and unlikely to result in anything new being mentioned] to present anything to squishy people.
BUT: the thing you cite...does NOT say ONLY the states retain such, it also mentions the people. Therefore, those people [counties, municipalities, individuals] retains those powers...I mean the point isn't that States are sovereign...States are just middle-men Gov'ts...the PEOPLE are sovereign, too. If one gov't, the one with the most lawyers, guns, and money, [and the one with the decisive power short of revolution] is forbidden from certain actions, the damn Minor Leagues sure don't get to just claim it.
And States, in general, have tried to limit not expand.
Hashi: yea, I guess I'm in a mood...