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The Tenth Amendment gave the individual states the power to secede. They didn't need a Constitutional Convention with states that were already violating the written word of the Constitution. What good was the word of those Northern states? Fool me once, etc.
Plus, of course, there was the tariff situation. The old tariff was already extracting many millions of dollars annually from the South for the benefit of Northern manufacturers, Northern workers, and Northern port businesses involved in trade. The Warehousing Act resulted in concentrating import facilities in New York City where importers could store items tariff free in warehouses for two years until they were sold (from memory).

Regardless of where in the country the imported goods ultimately went, the tariff on those goods arriving in New York was collected in New York.

Succinct but devastating rebuttal for those who can't shake off our K-12 indoctrination.

rustbucket: "The Tenth Amendment gave the individual states the power to secede."

HangUpNow: "Succinct but devastating rebuttal for those who can't shake off our K-12 indoctrination."

As posted in #501 above, that was Jefferson Davis' argument to the US Senate in January 1861.
But no US Founder ever made that argument.
All insisted that disunion could only come from mutual consent or from serious breach of compact, neither of which existed in December 1860, when South Carolina unilaterally declared secession, "at pleasure".