Urges people to assert power as nearly 25% open to breakaway.
With a surprising number of Americans open to secession in the wake of the Scottish referendum, a U.S. state lawmaker is pointing citizens to the nation’s founding documents, which he contends support the right of states to break away from the union.
A Reuters/Ipsos survey found nearly 25 percent of the American public strongly supported or tended to support the idea of their state breaking away. The poll found the historic Scottish referendum last week, even in defeat, has fueled talk of secession in the U.S.
New Hampshire Republican state Rep. Dan Itse, the author of a new book on state rights, contends the Constitution of his state and the U.S. Constitution give states sovereign authority over their own affairs.
“If you look at our New Hampshire Constitution from 1784, which predates the U.S. Constitution by a few years, the Bill of Rights in New Hampshire refers to New Hampshire as a free, sovereign and independent state,” he said in an interview with WND.
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