The North Will Rise Again!

In the wake of Dubya's reelection, many despondent Dems have made noise about moving to the Great White North. Let's take it one step further -- how about secession? Amusingly enough, Findlaw's Michael Dorf uses that far-fetched possibility to examine the question of whether the Constitution actually allows states to secede from the Union, either unilaterally or with the agreement of the other states. The unilateral option was pretty well shot down (literally) by the Civil War and subsequent Supreme Court cases. The by consent plan might just work, however.