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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Sometimes I (don't) agree with Don Black
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 17:22:10 EDT
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>Certainly, one can imagine Rhode Island, say, continuing to reject
>the Constitution and evolving alongside the United States as a sort
>of American Luxembourg.  But, the fact is that no state chose this
>route, and instead all chose the Union.  In acceding to the U.S.
>Constitution, the states also acceded to the Constitutional
>provision which declares it to be the "supreme law of the land."  
>

In fact, Quebec continued to reject the Constitution, despite some
pretty stron representations from delegations including, if memory
serves me, Benedict Arnold and Ben Franklin.  The statement above
should be amended to read "no state that joined the Union decided
to stay out of the Union", a pretty meaningless statement.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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