I’m no fan of the South in the civil war, I’m glad the North won for the simple fact that slavery is an evil, an objective evil that cannot be tolerated in a human society.
But I’ve never heard that secession was un-Constitutional. In fact the impression I got from my history lessons in high school (a public school at that) is that it was entirely Constitutional.
I really don’t know the facts there. I’m open to arguments from either side.
Where in the Constitution is there any explict right given to the states to secede? The states bound themselves to the Republic and the Constitution when they ratified the document or when they petitioned and were awarded statehood.
The isn’t any “tap-out” clause I know of. Again, secession, especially today, is an ignorant concept doomed to failure.
The US Supreme Court decision that Lincoln ignored didn’t say secession was Unconstitutional. I don’t believe I said that.