[slnk_rules]

ME:You claim that the States had the right to sovereign self-determination?
YOU:No. Not without the consent of all the parties involved.

Then you answered your own question, which was, how were the rights of individual states trampled?

[Non-Sequitur]

Then you answered your own question, which was, how were the rights of individual states trampled?

States had no right to leave the Union unilaterally. You cannot trample a right which does not exist.