In Canada, the federal government can submit a reference to the Supreme Court of Canada over a legal question. This is what they did in 1996 regarding Quebec secession. The following link is the Court's answer:
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1998/1998rcs2-217/1998rcs2-217.html --- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041109-122753-5113r.htm > > http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/01/25/secession/index.ht ml?pn=4 > > http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo103.html > > http://www.californiasecession.org/ > > http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041213/sale > > http://www.confederateamericanpride.com/case4secession.html > > http://www.theihs.org/libertyguide/article.php/729.html > > > http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/3/17568/04317 > > http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/ 0198293844/toc.html > > http://www.alternet.org/story/14531 > 10 Most Bitchin' Reasons California Becoming Its Own Country Would Be > So Cool > > * Four words: Vice President Nancy Pelosi. > > * State and local legislatures already extremely comfortable > setting foreign policy. > > * Our own armed services. Eastwood, Schwarzenegger, Stallone or > Willis in charge? > > * Opening weekend foreign distribution movie figures go way up. > > * You want a war. I got a war for you. We invade Florida for > orange juice supremacy. Then take on Wisconsin for that whole cheese > deal. Then France. For the wine? No, for the hell of it. Because now > it's in our blood. > > * Our own intelligence agency. Imagine the allure of an assignment > to one of our undercover cells in Reno. > > * Can extradite and convict Enron CEO, Ken Lay, at our own war > crimes tribunal. > > * We charge a fee on every foreigner trying out as a contestant on > "Wheel of Fortune." Call it a stupid tax. > > * Bechtel (a California based concern) builds a Great Wall right > down the middle of Lake Tahoe. Screw the corner. Straight line. North > to south. > > * We outlaw Fox News as a foreign propaganda tool. > > http://www.slate.com/id/2109317/ > > http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc716100.html > > http://www.agwright.com/blog/archives/000993.html > > http://www.mises.org/story/1204 > > http://www.sobran.com/columns/2004/041123.shtml > > http://www.petitiononline.com/casec/petition.htm > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4695553 > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
