Which state has authority to deny secession?
“”No state has the authority to secede unilaterally.”
Which state has authority to deny secession?”
If not State has the authority to secede Unilaterally how is it that the 13 colonies manage to secede from the British empire?
You can’t support the existents of the United States and not support the causes of the Confederacy in 1861.
Just because Lincoln wanted to be the new King George and the northern States wanted to be the new British Empire doesn’t mean they had the right to. They nearly had the might to eventually(after 4 bloody years) overwhelm and enslave an independent nation less then half their size.
Which state has authority to deny secession?
Each of the original states voluntarily surrendered its authority to secede when it ratified the Articles of Confederation, and joined the Union. States formed under the Northwest Ordinance were created by the Federal government, and had authority to secede only under terms set by the Federal government. Which two cases cover all of the states, except for Texas and Vermont.
Not that it matters. The South didn't secede, it rebelled. Had it just seceded, there would have been no war.