(November 20, 2012 at 4:25 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Fair enough.I'd imagine as with joining the union, a secession would not be a simple case of "one moment you're in, the next you're not". Obviously if people in one state have commitments (jobs, houses, etc.) in the seceding state, protocols are going to have to be drawn up for handling those sorts of things.
It should only be legal if a plurality of the national population wishes to let them go. Every state is in a binding contract to form our union, and the secession of states would have huge effects on others. One state should not have the unilateral right to secede.
I'm not sure it would need the national population's vote though. States have some form of self-government, and again, it isn't "united" if 49 states can stop one from leaving if it wants to.
That said, there should be a protocol that a seceding state must follow before being allowed to, to protect people in the state as well as those with interests in it.
