Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:57 PM 10/15/04 -0230, Greg Locke wrote: >Indeed, there are provisions in the various acts by which the provinces >joined or formed Canada, both historic and current for the withdrawal of a >province from confederation. Like the US states not all joined at the same >time and each had its own "Terms of Union" negotiated with the federal >government. > >Quebec has been trying since the 1960's through various referendums >(refendii?) Hysteron Proteron: "referenda" -- this is an o-class noun (aka, Second Declension), in the neuter gender, so it takes an -a as its plural (as is the case in Classical Greek, Russian, and a few of the Gaelic languages.) On your first point, the only US state to have reserved its right to withdraw from the Union was Virginia (which also called for a new Constitutional Convention a few years later, a call which is now only two states short of being granted, and may these come soon!) Virginia's claim to be able to withdraw was simply ignored by those boad-bastard Yankees at the time, so it very much remains alive today. If I were in charge of this Commonwealth, I would secede from the Union, ask one of the younger members of the British Royal House to serve as Prince Regnant, and then pay off our debts by charging dumb Yankees to come here to witness the Changing of the Guard in Williansburg. And, the wonder of it all is that it would all be most legal. Virginia Libera! Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!