Still no good. What does that have to do with secession? States were part of the United States under the Articles of Confederation. They were part of the United States when then ratified the Constitution. They were part of the United States in the interim between the two. Where is secession involved?
We don't need your “permission”! Samuel Adams Must have been referring to you: “We ask not your counsel, nor you arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.May your chains set lightly upon you”
Enjoy Obamacare...
John Taylor spells it out:
The deputations by sovereignties, far from being considered as killing the sovereignties from which they have derived limited powers, are evidences of their existence; and leagues between states demonstrate their vitality. The sovereignties which imposed the limitations upon the federal government, far from supposing that they perished by the exercise of a part of their faculties, were vindicated, by reserving powers in which their deputy, the federal government, could not participate; and the usual right of sovereigns to alter or revoke its commissions.