[Texaggie79]

Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation

[Arkinsaw]

Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation

This applies to States within the Union and that are parties to the compact. If the Southern States had confederated into a regional government BEFORE seceding then this Section would apply. To assume that this applied assumes that the Constitution still bound the Southern States AFTER secession. Appealing to this clause does not solve the question of whether a State could secede. If it can't, this clause has meaning. If it could, this clause has no meaning. In other words....the argument is not changed at all by an appeal to this section.

[Alberta's Child]

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;

I believe that clause specifically refers to treaties with foreign nations. Otherwise, every multi-state highway or environmental agency (the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, for example) is unconstitutional.