What the Constitution says is:
U.S. Const, Art 4, Sec 1, Cl 2:
And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
The general law passed on May 26, 1790 says, "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the acts of the legislatures of the several states shall be authenticated by having the seal of their respective states affixed thereto: That the records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, as the case may be, that the said attestation is in due form."
The Congress did decide how the legislative act of a state is proved.
By choosing adopt your own interpretation of the Constitution, and to ignore legal authorities, the relevant act of Congress, and the relevant decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, you have left yourself as lost as Jessica Lynch navigating in the desert.
The Constitution says the Congress may enact laws for states to prove their acts and the effect thereof. There was no limit on the number of laws and the fact that secession would have effects other than, say, marriage means that the South broke the law when they wouldn't allow the Congress to do as the Constitution allowed it.
The Congress did decide how the legislative act of a state is proved.
There was no limit on the number of laws and the fact that secession would've had different effects than, say, marriages means that the South broke the law when they wouldn't allow the Congress to prescribe laws for secession.
By choosing adopt your own interpretation of the Constitution, and to ignore legal authorities, the relevant act of Congress, and the relevant decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, you have left yourself as lost as Jessica Lynch navigating in the desert.
In other words, you are saying to not read the Constitution but to go by what someone else says it says. Sorry, the the accurate way to know what the Constitution says is to simply read it first hand and it says that the Congress can prescribe laws and determine the effect thereof.
...that just about sums up the entire latter half of this thread so far as the pet lunatic is involved!