In 1994, I was (so they tell me who follow such things) the first Libertarian in California to be endorsed for partisan office by a major daily newspaper. Now I have a chance at a second footnote in the history books!
There’s a new group (or maybe one guy) proposing an Amendment to recognize the right of secession:
The sovereign authority of any State to withdraw by law from the United States shall not be questioned, and the United States shall recognize it as a sovereign and independent country.
I’m chortling because the first clause was my suggestion (except that I wrote the People of any State), in response to this earlier draft:
If any state should, either through a referendum or a majority vote of that state’s legislature, choose to secede from the United States of America, Congress shall let it secede in peace, and recognize it as a sovereign and independent State.
My objection to this was that it overrode any provision that a State constitution might have for supermajority or popular ratification. Many of us, I imagine, would want some major reforms before allowing the gang of thieves in the State capitol to declare itself sovereign by simple majority!
