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Does Original Intent Prove Secession is Illegal?
Here's another deep dive on the issue of States leaving the union. Professor Brion McClanahan tackles the opponents of secession and their insistence that the Founding Fathers of the United States, through original intent, forbade States from withdrawing from the compact.
Warning: Hard core thinking required ahead.
https://soundcloud.com/brionmcclanahan/episode-131-does-original-intent-prove-seccesion-is-illegal
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