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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]OP asked a rather interesting legal/procedural question [/b]and we responded with our usual mud-flinging diatribes.

How about me answering a question with a question:  How might we go about reuniting our country's two hostile tribes -- liberals and conservative?  I'm not speaking of erasing philosophical differences, just learning how to treat each other like fellow Americans who have different ideas about how to reach common goals.[/quote]Except that it's really not.  The second response pretty well laid out the procedure- it's actually pretty simple - and identified several of the myriad reasons why it will not happen.  So it ceases to become interesting, and becomes navel gazing.[/quote]Interest is subjective and a question does not automatically and retroactively become uninteresting because someone answers it.  However, I'm glad you pointed me back to Freeman's early response, because I don't know where in the Constitution the question of secession is addressed.  Did Lincoln have Constitutional grounds to keep the Union together?  If not, has it been amended in?

Anyhow, that offhand reference to the "interesting" question was just a polite intro to my main point that I would like to see schoolyard level nastiness removed from political discussion (which probably has less chance of happening that the splitting we are supposedly discussing.)[/quote]

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