[WhiskeyPapa]

There is nothing in the Constitution which prohibits a State from peacefully withdrawing from the compact.

The Supreme Court decided otherwise in 1862.

See The Prize Cases.

Walt

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The Supreme Court decided otherwise in 1862.

The Supreme Court also decided the Dred Scott Case. Every time the Supreme Court reverses itself on a constitutional question, it acknowledges that its prior decision was unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court may be the final arbiter of the Constitution but they are not omnipotent.

[4CJ]

There is nothing in the Constitution which prohibits a State from peacefully withdrawing from the compact. The Supreme Court decided otherwise in 1862.

They didn't say that secession was illegal, they said "[t]heir right to do so is now being decided by wager of battle."