Technically, a state has the right to secede. However, the Federal government looks down on it, to the point of forcibly keeping a state in the union. Yet another dissolution of Constitutional powers alloted to the states via the Tenth Amendment. See also US Federalism.
On an interesting note, both Texas and Hawaii were sovereign countries when they jointed the US. (The 13 states preceding the ratification of the Constitution were also independent bodies, but that was different.) They could theoretically get away with leaving with a lot less, um, violence? (as if). Texas makes noises now and then (well, Texans make noises; their legislature is more and more diluted into Federal government-dependent wimps -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Technically.).
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Date: Jun. 28th, 2010 07:54 pm (UTC)See: our Civil War.
Technically, a state has the right to secede. However, the Federal government looks down on it, to the point of forcibly keeping a state in the union. Yet another dissolution of Constitutional powers alloted to the states via the Tenth Amendment. See also US Federalism.
On an interesting note, both Texas and Hawaii were sovereign countries when they jointed the US. (The 13 states preceding the ratification of the Constitution were also independent bodies, but that was different.) They could theoretically get away with leaving with a lot less, um, violence? (as if). Texas makes noises now and then (well, Texans make noises; their legislature is more and more diluted into Federal government-dependent wimps -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Technically.).