[Non-Sequitur]

The ultimate sovereignty is the right of the people to withdraw their legislators and secede from the government that they themselves created.

Not unilaterally, no. That was illegal.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Pea Ridge] The ultimate sovereignty is the right of the people to withdraw their legislators and secede from the government that they themselves created.

[You, obfuscating] Not unilaterally, no. That was illegal.

Your turn. Chapter and verse. The article and section of the Constitution that conveys, mortgages, subrogates, or however you want to put it, the power of a People (=State, contrary you) to resume their powers and their sovereignty, and retire from the Union.

You might also show us where in the Constitution one State gets to have a say in whether another State can ratify an article of amendment or not, or whether one State has to have the permission of the others to ratify an amendment.

You can't, because they don't, and the same thing's true of secession and sovereignty. No State or combination of States has a veto over the relationship of any State to the Union. Once statehood is granted, that's it, my State is a State -- and existing States don't have the right to forbid my State to take up the power to ratify an amendment, to send electors to the Electoral College, to call a convention of the People of my State, or to secede.