Historian: Seceding illegal under Nevada law
Guy Rocha was the State Archivist but bailed ("retired"
when budget cuts were threatening to gut the records/archives office. He's kinda like the Willy Wonka of Nevada history.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/historian-seceding-illegal-under-nevada-law-179367521.html
Nevada's constitution blocks people from trying to secede from the United States and the more than 8,000 people who have signed a petition to secede could be guilty of "sedition," a longtime Nevada historian said Wednesday.
Guy Rocha, the former state archivist, said that when Nevada became a state during the Civil War, a "paramount allegiance" clause was added to its constitution under which the state and its residents gave up any right to secede from the union.
"It was a prerequisite for statehood and the federal government may employ force to require obedience," he said.
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