按：幾天前在施行化博處有網友提及美國反分裂案例Texas v. White (http://blog.creaders.net/shihuadeboke/user_blog_diary.php?did=194441)，抽空在wiki上瞅了一眼，覺得很有意思，特轉譯部分以供網友參閱。原文在此： http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White
Texas v. White 案中 大法官 Chief Justice Salmon Chase 的陳辭：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White
The Union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. It began among the Colonies, and grew out of common origin, mutual sympathies, kindred principles, similar interests, and geographical relations. It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war , and received definite form and character and sanction from the Articles of Confederation. By these, the Union was solemnly declared to 'be perpetual.' And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country, the Constitution was ordained ' to form a more perfect Union.' It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.
