As a practical matter, secession would be a difficult process full of messy details.
Suppose a state voted to secede from the union.
A vote would not be unanimous. It might be a strong majority, say 60% to 40%, but you would still have a huge number of people in the state who want to remain in the union.
Would that 40% minority be required to move out of their state, in order to retain their American citizenship?
What of matters such as that state’s share of the national debt? Would they be required to pay it off?
What about issues such as Social Security benefits paid for and earned by the residents of a state which was no longer in the union?
Would dual citizenship be allowed?
Would the state have to issue its own currency?
Would the state deny citizenship to people living in the state who were not born in that state, but were born in another state, or another country?
What about issues of military bases in the state, and provisions for military defense? Would the rest of the US have defense treaties with the state which secedes?
Will there be tariffs on trade between the rest of the US and the state which secedes?
This is just off the top of my head. All of these and more can be negotiated. Just saying, for a time, there would be a huge can of worms opened up, to make it all work.
Excellent points and the reason why I say that intelligent adults negotiate, not saber-rattle.
“As a practical matter, secession would be a difficult process full of messy details.”
True, but such is the way of people who choose to exercise their God given right to freedom and liberty from oppression.
Life is messy for the individual. Even more-so for a collection of individuals, banded together under the common goal of uniting against a larger collective, which has proven itself to be deleterious to the common good.
I don’t want to see our union of states disolved, but if remedies for what ails us cannot be found or realized via our accepted civil mechanisms, there may be no other choice.