[DoodleDawg]

The states and the people had an absolute and unalienable right to withdraw a ratification of the Constitution and withdraw from the Union. Still do.

The courts have ruled otherwise. At least in the way the Southern states chose to accomplish it.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

What courts? And so what. The courts said blacks were only mere property and could never be citizens.

Here’s what the Constitution says:

9th Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10th Amendment:
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.

But that doesn’t matter either. Just like the 1st and 2nd Amendments don’t matter. They simply memorialize pre-existing natural rights.

Any state joining the Union could withdraw as a matter of right; the right is the same right that allowed the state to agree to ratify.

The Constitution was NOT a suicide pact, after all.

[jeffersondem]

“The courts have ruled otherwise.”

Victor’s Justice.

[DiogenesLamp]

The courts would do what Lincoln said, especially after he issued an arrest warrant for Chief Justice Tanney.

And no, I don't want to hear your denials of it. I've found adequate proof that this claim is true, and i've posted it for you in the past. You just refuse to accept that this really happened, because it is not justifiable under the claim one is defending the constitution.