No, Virginia was admitted to the Confederacy on May 11, 1861.
Again, can you please cite where it says this in the Constitution?
Check my reply 104.
I rechecked it. Still no prohibition against secession can be found. Again, can you please cite where it says this in the Constitution?
Two states cannot vote to combine without the OK of Congress. States cannot change their border by a fraction of an inch without consent of Congress. Leaving the Union, by implication, requires the same.
That's quite an assumption you make there. Keep in mind that secession does not involve changing borders or combining with other states.
What you do not understand is that I agree with you that secession is permitted under the Constitution
btw, Virginia didn't join a 'rebellion'. Virginia opted out because the United States had violated its trust. And they did so based upon their original ratification:
WE the Delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected in pursuance of a recommendation from the General Assembly, and now met in Convention, having fully and freely investigated and discussed the proceedings of the Federal Convention, and being prepared as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, DO in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will: that therefore no right of any denomination, can be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified, by the Congress, by the Senate or House of Representatives acting in any capacity, by the President or any department or officer of the United States, except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes: and that among other essential rights, the liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified by any authority of the United States.
My error. But let me point out that May 11 is still before the May 23rd referendum. So much for vox populi.
I rechecked it. Still no prohibition against secession can be found. Again, can you please cite where it says this in the Constitution?
Hopefully you read on.
That's quite an assumption you make there. Keep in mind that secession does not involve changing borders or combining with other states.
No, but combining states does remove one state from the Union. Regardless, the point is that every other change in a state's status requires congressional approval. Why shouldn't leaving? They required approval to join, simple logic dictates they need the same to leave.
btw, Virginia didn't join a 'rebellion'. Virginia opted out because the United States had violated its trust.
Nope. Their acts of secession were illegal. It was a rebellion.