I believe as you believe a state must secede via an act of congress similar in process to becoming a state, the whole of the nation’s representatives in both houses of congress must vote to allow secession of any individual state, anything else is tantamount to a rebellion and an act of war.
Agreed. Don’t you find it amusing that the South apologists want to equate a state’s right over the federal government’s right. As if either of them had any rights to begin with. Yet, they ignore the people who actually had rights (the slaves).
How many times in the federalist papers is it talked about the rights of the minority (be they political minorities or anything else) and how we as a people need to protect their rights. But I guess the South’s “right” to secede trumped all of that...