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  • That’s a far cry from a stipulation that any state unhappy with the union could leave. While the Declaration of Independence is an important founding document of our country, it does not have the force of law.

    I would argue secession as it was imagined by the rebel states was implicitly unconstitutional already. That was certainly the position of the Union during the Civil War. You can’t guarantee individual rights of U.S. citizens in the Constitution and allow states to free themselves from the obligation to respect those rights by just choosing to secede.

    We do have the ability to dissolve the union as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence, but it can’t be done unilaterally by any one state. We could do it with a constitutional amendment.

    The only other way is through blood and death. As you point out, that hasn’t worked so far.



















  • NABDad@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldContinuous integration
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    6 months ago

    I recently purchased an incredibly shitty hand truck for a move.

    Apart from the not unexpected need to beat a part into shape with a hammer, it also included a “wrench”. Really just a vaguely wrench-like shape stamped out of a piece of 1/8" thick sheet metal.

    There were three different sizes of nuts and bolts required for assembly, and the “wrench” didn’t fit any of them.