Opinions on secession split from 10th Amendment: Get Out of the Union Free Card?

texcowboy1850

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The power to admit a state to the Union and to approve any change in status once it has been allowed to join is a power reserved to the federal government and not to the states alone. So no, the 10th Amendment is not a license to leave.
I can under stand why so many people believe this way now, since 1865 it has been true but before the War it was not! What do you think the South was fighting for? Slavery , Well in a way but but it was for the States to have the right to decide. I will post a few post to show why it was for state rights and the reason we had the right to leave the Union.
President James Madison said:
The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined: those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite; The former will be exercised principally on external objects,as war,peace,negotiation,and foreign commerce----with which last the powers of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States, will extend to all other objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and the properties of the people,and the internal order, improvement,and the prosperity of the State.
Baisically, the defense of lives,rights,and property went to the Federal Government, all sovereign power was to remain in the hands of the people.
 
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