The Civil War Didn't 'Settle' The Question Of State Secession
Posted by freedomforall 8 months, 3 weeks ago to Government
Excerpt:
"While the Constitution doesn’t address secession, it does have a provision that implicitly grants that power to the states. According to the 10th Amendment, “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Since the Constitution does not expressly deny the states of that power (nor delegate it to the central government), secession is reserved to the states.
Even by itself, the word “delegated” further substantiates states’ right to secede, by underscoring that the United States was formed as a compact of independent states — with “states” used in a sense that puts Pennsylvania on par with Mexico or France. Those sovereign states created the federal government to serve them, only granting the new entity powers that James Madison described as “few and defined,” while the states retained powers that were “numerous and indefinite.”
“Delegated” validates that the states are rightly the masters of the federal government they created, and should therefore be free to voluntarily exit the compact just as they voluntarily entered it. As historian Brion McClanahan argued in a 2015 speech, “Sovereignty can be delegated, but a delegation assumes the ability to rescind that power.”
Speaking on the Constitution’s 50th anniversary, former president and statesman John Quincy Adams said:
“If the day should ever come, (may Heaven avert it,) when the affections of the people of these states shall be alienated from each other; when the fraternal spirit shall give away to cold indifference, or collisions of interest shall fester into hatred…far better will it be for the people of the disunited states to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint.”"
"While the Constitution doesn’t address secession, it does have a provision that implicitly grants that power to the states. According to the 10th Amendment, “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Since the Constitution does not expressly deny the states of that power (nor delegate it to the central government), secession is reserved to the states.
Even by itself, the word “delegated” further substantiates states’ right to secede, by underscoring that the United States was formed as a compact of independent states — with “states” used in a sense that puts Pennsylvania on par with Mexico or France. Those sovereign states created the federal government to serve them, only granting the new entity powers that James Madison described as “few and defined,” while the states retained powers that were “numerous and indefinite.”
“Delegated” validates that the states are rightly the masters of the federal government they created, and should therefore be free to voluntarily exit the compact just as they voluntarily entered it. As historian Brion McClanahan argued in a 2015 speech, “Sovereignty can be delegated, but a delegation assumes the ability to rescind that power.”
Speaking on the Constitution’s 50th anniversary, former president and statesman John Quincy Adams said:
“If the day should ever come, (may Heaven avert it,) when the affections of the people of these states shall be alienated from each other; when the fraternal spirit shall give away to cold indifference, or collisions of interest shall fester into hatred…far better will it be for the people of the disunited states to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint.”"
It is fine to question things. Double checking knowledge is always good.
There is the truth and then there is what we think the truth is. Those don't necessarily match. I don't think it is possible to know with absolute certainty if some truth is actually true. However, it is possible to get close. The reason why things don't work in the real world how they should based on logic is because there is some mistake somewhere. So, we should not altogether abandon logical discourse and its application to the real world. We should find where the mistake is and fix it.
Otherwise yes, I can only hope they find my arguments convincing. Coercion is not allowed.
I would imagine once a critical mass of legitimate security organizations is reached, the system would attain a stable state.
I propose a secret society that would engage in double espionage, false flag operations and such.
1. they are getting paid by the state once they get here, the funds are involuntarily coming from local population of course
2. their point of origin has states that prey on them which causes them to want to leave
Once the states are gone, not many would want to move.
How do you exist now? Dependent on the labor of others, or do you support yourself?
The problem you have is how and where to create the opportunity for such a society without the protection afforded by the state. There aren't any places on the planet that aren't claimed by a country already, so it seems you either establish this new society by somehow overthrowing an existing state, or looking off-world on a privately built and supplied space station or colony on the Moon, an asteroid, or another planet.
Reality sucks - we get that, but we live in the real world, not a fantasy academic vision.
I have come to a number of realizations that helped me resolve my confusion:
1. morality exists without government. the laws decreed by the state can only poorly misrepresent what is actually right and wrong.
2. human predation is the most important force in the world that is causing most of the problems; statism is predation.
3. freedom is the opposite of slavery, NOT the rights and liberties guaranteed to individuals under the constitution; freedom is reciprocal interactions between members of society; non-reciprocal relationships are slavery.
My vision for a perfect world is one that is final and universal. It is not democratic or authoritarian, it is not voted upon or decreed. It is scientific, mathematical, logical. My kind of anarchy is not just anarchy. It is the truth.
My view is that humanity is guilty of extreme dumbfuckery. You guys think you are so smart and righteous. Nothing can be further from the truth. If not for your idiotic misunderstanding of the universe and your stupid behavior, you would have been traveling the stars by now and living unbounded lifespans.
Here is what I would change about the world:
1. bring about the abolition of 'the state', dissolve borders.
2. allow laws to be derived with logic from universally accepted axioms by academia and the like.
3. allow private organizations to provide security services / 'law enforcement' for profit in a free market, not a monopolist criminal organization that is 'the state'.
4. get rid of no prisons and replace with labor camps, disallow punishment and replace with repayment of damages
There is more but it isn't coming to me at the moment.
You appear to be setting up some sort of straw man, then proceeding to knock it down.
Define 'Utopia' for me. I have no idea what you are talking about. If you mean 'ideally perfect place' then I see nothing wrong with wanting perfection. Of course, I do understand that attaining perfection is not easy, but one can at least try.
'Humans don't behave in the way believers think they should' - sounds like they believe wrong. This is easy to fix: just make the believers believe in the truth and not falsehood.
You appear to be using some kind of fallacy to argue against me instead of using logical arguments. Which human behavior am I wrong about exactly and why?
We were warriors with no fear and nothing to lose. We received no handouts, no welfare, no quarter, NOTHING!
We left everything behind and risked our lives to come here and make a life out of the wilderness.
Everything tried to kill us here: the elements, the wildlife, the Indians, etc.
It was not an easy life and thus only the hardiest survived. The WEAK died or went back home.
It is because of our European heritage and genetics and the fact that only the strongest survived, that made America the Land of the Free and The Home of the Brave.
That is why the more people we allow to come here that are not of the original stock, the more diluted the American Spirit becomes and the less willing to die for our freedoms the country becomes.
You really think a Pakistani is going to come here and FIGHT for freedom and liberty and be willing to DIE to preserve those freedoms when he has no connection to the land, the people, or the freedoms our forefathers gave to us?
Why would he when the public school system and the Jewish owned media tell him everyday how the white people here are all evil racists that are holding him down and that the solution is to murder every white person he sees?
I would postulate that what we see around us today all started when Lincoln flooded the country with immigrants so he could use them as cannon fodder against the Southern States.
That's exactly what we've been seeing the last couple of years as Biden's puppet masters instructed him to allow in 100M illegals. When the time is ready, they will use those 100M illegals to murder us all.
Prepare accordingly.
Humans are social animals that function as best they can in a hierarchical structure. Anarchy is just a different form of Communism, as the desired end state of that philosophy is the withering away of any state structure, with all sharing equally in labor and the results of that collective labor, while Anarchy doesn't care so much about the equal part, as participants who don't contribute as much get what they deserve. It's supposedly a society made up of "lone wolves."
The lone wolf picture is itself a fallacy, as the wolf pack is a very ordered structure with an alpha male and female at the top, and a pecking order all the way to the bottom. The pack does defend and support even the lowest members, but it acts in much the same manner as a human hierarchical society.
Obviously you will contend that I've go it all wrong, but I'm always interested in hearing different ideas, so humor me and explain what your kind of anarchy would be like.
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me away, ha-ha!"
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