[billbears]

The Articles stated in many places that the Union was PERPETUAL. It never claimed the government was perpetual.

And the Constitution never once referenced said Articles nor mentioned perpetual. So it must have been a different form of government established, a voluntary one. Hmmmm....

[Poohbah]

And the Constitution never once referenced said Articles nor mentioned perpetual. So it must have been a different form of government established, a voluntary one. Hmmmm....

We the People, in Order to Form a More Perfect Union...

"More perfect" than what, pray tell?

[justshutupandtakeit]

Since the Union had already been declared to be perpetual and the Constitution explicitly stated that it was adopted to make the Union MORE PERFECT it does not take a lot of brain power to understand that it could not be less than perpetual and be more perfect.

Jackson certainly doesn't agree with your belief. Nor does ANY other founder. Not one. Hmmmm....

Secession could have been perfectly legal had the Constitution been amended to allow it.

Our Union is not the political equivalent of an Islamic divorce. Saying "I secede" three times or a hundred times doesn't do it.