Jacob Sullum on Crimean Secession and the Irrelevance of Ukraine’s Constitution

Next Sunday the people of
Crimea are scheduled to vote on whether to secede from
Ukraine and become part of Russia. President
Obama says the referendum is illegitimate because it
violates the Ukrainian Constitution. But the president’s respect
for the Ukrainian constitution is highly selective, says Jacob
Sullum, and that document’s relevance is dubious in any case.

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