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A CONCURRING OPINION FOR SECESSION
PART 4

By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
February 15, 2010
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(Continued) Anti-Secessionist Argument #2: The US Constitution Is Not a Federal Compact of States/Bodies-Politic, but Is an Independent Government Formed by One People/Body-Politic, Without Regard to State Powers.

Perhaps one of the best sources to determine whether the states voluntarily assented to a federal compact or whether the whole people created a perpetual federal government at the exclusion of the state’s right to secede is the states’ ratification documents themselves. “[T]he publication of the Proceedings and Debates of the states must, at least, be useful [to determine] what the states really intended to grant to the general government.â€

A CONCURRING OPINION FOR SECESSION
PART 5

By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
February 15, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

(Continued) Anti-Secessionist Argument #2: The US Constitution Is Not a Federal Compact of States/Bodies-Politic, but Is an Independent Government Formed by One People/Body-Politic, Without Regard to State Powers.

Federalist Papers

This matter of state ratification was in fact a concern, such that, the states wanted to be certain that their ratification was known to be an assent to a federal compact and would not be misconstrued any other way, since as Hamilton admitted, “the States [did not] prefer a national Constitution.â€

A CONCURRING OPINION FOR SECESSION
PART 1

By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
February 15, 2010
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One of my most highly esteemed colleagues, Edwin Vieira, wrote a recent article entitled, “A Dissenting Opinion On ‘Secession’,â€

A CONCURRING OPINION FOR SECESSION
PART 2

By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
February 15, 2010
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Anti-Secessionist Argument #1: To secede would cause damage to the other states given their “detrimental relianceâ€

A CONCURRING OPINION FOR SECESSION
PART 3

By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
February 15, 2010
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Anti-Secessionist Argument #2: The US Constitution Is Not a Federal Compact of States/Bodies-Politic, but Is an Independent Government Formed by One People/Body-Politic, Without Regard to State Powers.

This position is in actuality the main crux of the unionists. The reason that unionists must rely on this argument is because if in fact the constitution is a federal compact assented to by the states in their individual and independent capacity as a sovereign state, then political maxims held true in American jurisprudence prove that those same states may secede from the union in like manner that they entered: through the UNILATERAL action of that body-politic.

Definition of “Stateâ€