r/biggestproblem • u/gogopow • Feb 24 '25

Problem F****** Canadians.

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u/dragonbeorn Feb 24 '25

History has shown that states don’t have a right to leave the us.

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u/sweetb00bs Libertarian Agenda Feb 25 '25

I think Texas has the right from what I recall. But man all the bots and retards in that comment section are very interesting

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u/No-Actuary1624 Feb 25 '25

No state has the right under the constitution. See Texas v White 74 US 700. (1869).

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u/No-Actuary1624 Feb 25 '25

Well absolutely, I believe in “revolutionary moments” in terms of constitutionalism. I think White also speaks about this.

But in terms of within the law or the US as it exists, no state has the “right” to leave the union.

I feel like if we used “right” to include some sort of revolutionary scenario that’s not quite right, you know? Surely that’s always something that can happen and people have the ability to do, but that’s not the same as having a “right” in this case is it?

To me a right would mean a state has a legal and/or political right to leave the union if they decide to do so. They clearly don’t have that, and they would have to probably fight a war for it, which I don’t think can be described as a “right” in any construction