Bootney Lee Farnsworth
Diamond Member
Nor vice versa. So, the Union can claim Fort Sumnter, but not the rest of South Carolina, right?It clearly means the PROPERTY of the Federal Government REMAINS with the Federal Government NO matter the action of the Individual State, South Carolina did not own Fort Sumnter the Federal Government did. NO action by a State can make Federal land State land.Section 3.My bad. It was in the constitution. I knew I had read it long ago.
Article IV Section 3
New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.
Still not seeing it. Nothing in there forbids States from seceding.