I’m a little confused about what states in US are. Are they more like their own countries united in alliance, or are they districts of one country?

  • False@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    The constitution doesn’t cover if states can leave the union. Until the civil war this was an unresolved question. We now know definitively that you de facto can’t, at least not without permission of the federal government.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      13 minutes ago

      If you believe it’s the force of law that resolved the question: it wasn’t, it was the force of violence. The resolution of that question was through the use of force and it’s the use of force that keeps that resolution in place, not the force of law.