mattskramer
Senior Member
If the states do not have a right to withdraw from the union and form their own country, then a 'nation' -- which is nothing more than a group of people -- do not have that right.
I explained it as easily as I could. I don't know how else to explain it.
The treaty that the federal government made with the states is not to be broken and it has not been broken. The federal govenrment can't break it. The states can't break it.
The treaty that the federal government made with the Indians is not to be broken but the federal government broke it. That makes all the difference. Its history of breaking deals with the Indias made the treaties null and void.