Re: Was Secession Legal? Part 9
>Nothing else. If I delegate “power of attorney” to you, you are to act on my behalf. If I take back that “power of attorney”, you can no longer represent me. If a State delegates certain listed powers [Art I, Sect 8] to the national government, and then changes it’s mind and withdraws the delegated powers, to be resumed by the State government, that is secession.
To Johnny Reb: Your analogy is somewhat lacking. If you delegate power of attorney to me: you cannot get that power back unless I grant it back to you.
So in your statement listed below: a state cannot get back that power they granted to federal government unless the federal government grants them that power: hence, without federal approval, a state cannot succeed. – Eric
Do What?!? Remind me never to move to wherever it is you live. Here in the un-Free State, power of attorney is only temporary. A Power of Attorney is a written instrument by which one person, as principal, appoints another as his her agent and confers upon him the authority to perform certain specified acts or kinds of acts on behalf of the principal. But that power of attorney only lasts as long as the principal determines.
Wow! No wonder this country is so screwed up. Did they teach you that at university?
“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 power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State. The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.” Federalist Papers #45.
Also read Amendments IX and X.
But I am curious. Where in the US Constitution does it say, “a state cannot get back that power they granted to federal government unless the federal government grants them that power: hence, without federal approval, a state cannot succeed.” Please quote me chapter and verse. – Johnny Reb 1865
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