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The actual written Constitution has far more text about handling the cases of treason, rebellion, and domestic violence than it does about individual states sec
by mpyne 13y ago
The actual written Constitution has far more text about handling the cases of treason, rebellion, and domestic violence than it does about individual states seceding.
And if you would read the Declaration of Independence you'd see that the "tyranny test" (such as one was ever conceived in American jurisprudence) is very strict indeed. Even from the first days of the American Revolutionary War we were claiming that the government deserved a great deal of "benefit of the doubt" and that it would take a very severe set of circumstances to cast off a government.