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Thread #127728   Message #2853539
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-Mar-10 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: State Sovereignty Resolutions
Subject: RE: BS: State Sovereignty Resolutions
"So secession is not a constitutional option."

Not if the constitution in question includes provision for secession. If the constitution specifically excludes it then indeed it wouldn't be "a constitutional option."

When a constitution doesn't say one way or another, it's not so clear. Then it all depends on the politics at the time. Hence the contrast between what happened in the USA in 1860 and in Czechoslovakia in 1992.