[donmeaker]

dedicated to the destruction of the United States....


You mean like Jeff Davis and his buddies?

[SierraWasp]

What have you got against the beaten down 10th amendment???

[SAJ]

Speaking only Constitutionally, there being exactly no provision in the document prohibiting secession, nor empowering the United States to block or inhibit secession, the 10th Amendment is the only part of the Constitution that is applicable to the question. The wording of the 10th is perfectly clear, postulating (dangerously) that the United States government intends to obey its own Constitution.

While I have always considered the secession of the states that later formed the Confederacy to have been rank idiocy, for at least 10 or a dozen separate reasons, the apodeictic fact of the matter is that such secession is fully within the Constitutional powers of the several states,

as the document was/is written.