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Is this the point of the "states" in America, if the administration is a failure, states can basically secede and just get back to sensible governance / getting
by bamboozled 8mo ago
Is this the point of the "states" in America, if the administration is a failure, states can basically secede and just get back to sensible governance / getting work done ?
- zamadatix 8mo agoThere were a lot of reasons for keeping states as states when the US formed. Anything from fears of too much centralized power to being a compromise to get agreement from all of the states at the time. Secession wasn't one listed as a states right though, in either the original Articles of Confederation or in the Constitution. Since then, the Supreme Court has consistently held it would effectively require a constitutional amendment defining secession for a state to be able to legally secede. So the realistic paths are still only "pretty much the whole country wants to dissolve and come up with something new instead" or "revolution". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States#Disputed_legality_of_unilateral_secession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States...
- bamboozled 8mo agoThanks for the response!