From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 22:08:50 MDT
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Paul Grant wrote:
> You mean like the US federal government chose not to acknowledge
> the southern states right to succede? How is that any different?
Now this raises an interesting question in my mind. Does anyone
know if there is a "proper" process for U.S. states to succede?
Or did this just get overlooked in the process of writing the
constitution? I.e. you can join, but you cannot leave.
If the U.S. constitution does not have a "leaving" process,
are there any countries that do? The only examples I can
think of (where splits were peacefully agreed upon) are
Czechoslovakia and perhaps some of the autonomous regions
in the former USSR.
Robert
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