Secession, was Re: How best to spend US$200 billion? RE: `twisted ethics prevalent onthe extropy board'

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@xocolatl.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 22:37:57 MDT

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    On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:08:50 -0700 (PDT), Robert J. Bradbury
    <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:

    >
    > 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?

    I believe it'd take an act of Congress.

    And I'd expect a constitutional challenge to be brought by someone
    (possibly a citizen of the state in question) who didn't like that, and an
    injunction at the Federal level to be issued until the whole thing got
    wrangled out.

    I think Texas has reserved the power to fragment into several separate
    states of the Union, but that's a separate mater. So to speak.

    MMB

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