“Madison also wrote, “The characteristic distinction between free Governments and Governments not free is, that the former are founded on compact, not between the Government and those for whom it acts, but between the parties creating the Government. Each of those being equal, neither can have more rights to say that the compact has been violated and dissolved, than every other has to deny the fact, and to insist on the execution of the bargains.”
So Madison is clearly stating that the oppression is not intolerable, the compact is not broken merely because one side says it is.”
I don’t see how you can draw the conclusion that secession is illegal from what he said here... Just because the compact is between equal party’s and not just between a government and the governed, doesn’t mean that the minority has not the right to declare it in violation.
“Madison went on to ask, “An inference from the doctrine that a single state has a right to secede at will from the rest, is that the rest would have an equal right to secede from it; in other words, to turn it, against its will, out of its union with them.” So let me ask you this, is he right?”
Yes he is right.
“Do states have the right to turn another state out of the Union against its will?”
By the means he described yes of course they do. But technically they are all just leaving the union and forming a new one independently. Just as he described.
“If not, why not? What part of the Constitution prevents it?”
No part of the Constitution prevents it, nor can any part of any constitution prevent it.
The only thing the federal Constitution prevents is an amendment to the existing constitution which allows States to be deprived of their equal representation in the senate without their consent.
Something the 17th Amendment did anyway.
And the majority has the equal right to declare that no violation has occurred. Now what?
By the means he described yes of course they do. But technically they are all just leaving the union and forming a new one independently. Just as he described.
That's not true at all. They are not leaving anything. They are retaining the Union and booting someone out of it.