BINGO! Read the NINTH and TENTH AMENDMENTS. Then, read them AGAIN.
BTW: Several states, in the instrument by which they ratified the Constitution, explicitly retained the right to secede--and the other states raised no objection.
If the Constitution had contained a provision prohibiting secession, it would have constituted a repudiation of the Declaration of Independence.
Any state has the right to secede, and to do so according to whatever process THE STATE deems proper. The notion that the federal government, from which the state is separating itself, has the authority to judge, question, evaluate, or veto the decision is absurd.
I repeat: Roe v. Wade, by purporting that the Constitution prohibits the states from outlawing homicide, made the U.S. Government an illegitimate government. Since all fifty state governments have acquiesced in that crime, they, too, are illegitimate. They continue as dead simulacra of governments because life is tolerable for everyone except those who are being murdered. But the putrescence of the bloating corpses of these defunct governments continues apace. The Obama Administration is merely the latest glob of stinking sputum to be coughed up by the Democratic Party as it gleefully splashes about in the blood of its millions of offerings to Satan.
Fair enough. So is there anything in the Constitution to suggest that the United States has the power to enforce its laws, even amidst opposition? Oh yes, there's this:The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Congress shall have Power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the UnionAnd then there's this:
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
Fair enough. So is there anything in the Constitution to suggest that the United States has the power to enforce its laws, even amidst opposition? Oh yes, there's this:The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Congress shall have Power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the UnionAnd then there's this:
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.