ShadesOfKnight wrote:[LPC as Moderator Note: I split this off from another thread so that it would be easier to follow.]
The whole state-not state argument... and I find myself going back to 1861 for a solution.
The distinction between State and Non-State was blasted into non-existence when Congress adjourned sine die and forcibly re-convened by Executive Order. At that point, any real question of "state" versus "federal possession" was pretty well settled.
They're ALL federal possessions.
What I meant was that the Readers might want to ignore The Observer and anyone who cannot understand the concept of a name.
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Perhaps what was meant by force in the opening Post is that the Southern States had to fight over the preexisting right to secede from the Union. When they lost, they were forced to remain in the Union. And they were basically forced to legislate the Fourteenth Amendment too.
Regards,
David Merrill.
