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6. That was debated and rejected by the Framers. Your idea would have been RW in the 18th Century.

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 11:11 AM

Feb 2013

There's a good reason there's a bar to exile. The Confederacy could have legally exiled itself in 1860.

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