[Libertarianize the GOP]

I realize that we have been talking past each other for the most part because you and I disagree over the legitimacy of secession. I have seen enough evidence to convince me that secession is legitimate but I don't want to debate that issue. If you start with my perspective then you look for what mechanisms within the Constitution would come into play in negotiating a voluntary mutually agreeable secession. Under those circumstances it would not be a stretch to read each enumerated power as containing within itself the ability to transfer that power to a State that seceded. Property formerly belonging to the United States could be transferred or sold to the newly independent State. If the Secession were not mutually agreed upon then it would make little difference what the Constitution said on the issue.

[Dixie republican]

I say the only way secession is legal is by way of a Constitutional amendment.