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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by ryandrake on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:23AM (#28772835)
An entire bloody Civil War was fought over (among other things) whether or not it was possible to break up the USA. The outcome was: States cannot leave. The Constitution does not address secession, but the Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the Constitution to have created a union that is in their words, indestructible,”[1] and ultimately the Civil War seems to have pretty convincingly established the illegality of unilateral secession.

1: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/11/14/good-question-can-...

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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by ericmay on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:35AM (#28772977)
Definitely interesting but could you explain or expand upon what your point was here?
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by ryandrake on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:48AM (#28773159)
I guess I was just responding to:

> It’s hard for us to imagine seeing it break up but there is nothing that prevents that except our general desire to live together.

That thing that prevents it is evidently the [EDIT: Supreme Court's interpretation of the] Constitution, so it's not just a matter of losing that general desire to live together. We'd have to at the very least go through the difficult process of amending the Constitution to allow it, in order to actually legally break the union up.

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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:52AM (#28773204)
> That thing that prevents it is evidently the Constitution

Laws don't prevent things.

Laws provide a justification for people who want to prevent things fo act to prevent them.

If there is no will, the law does nothing.

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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by ericmay on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:54AM (#28773222)
Ah I see. I don't see a legal dissolution occurring so that wasn't something I was really tracking (but hey maybe that's the black swan event?). Much more likely IMO is another civil war (unlikely though because we're fat, happy) or the system becomes so dysfunctional that people aren't willing to shed blood to get rid of it, but they largely ignore it.
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