ANY STATE OR GROUP OF STATES CAN DISSOLVE THEIR RELATION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT ANYTIME AND REFORM THEIR OWN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ANY WAY(IN ANY FORM) THEY CHOOSE. THE CSA PROVED THIS. IT CAN BE DONE QUICKLY, UNDER DURESS AND AT THE SAME TIME MOBILIZING FOR WAR!
The state is the building block of the republic, NOT the Federal.
Except the lesson is you can’t. Texas v. White resolved the legal issues, holding that the 1861-1865 pretended secession was of no legal effect, and that putting down the insurrection was correct. Further, it held that money loaned to support the insurrection should not be paid back by the States.
So you are pretty much wrong on all counts. Rather like saying you can rob a bank and shoot a guard with no penalty, and lets just pretend that getting caught, put on trial and executed part doesn’t count.
I hate to break this to you, but the civil war proved exactly that you cannot do this. It established the principle that the Union is forever, and regardless of how you feel about it, they will force you to remain a part of it whether you like it or not.
The state is the building block of the republic, NOT the Federal.
That may be how it started out, but Lincoln changed that paradigm. The US is like the Hotel California, You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave.
I HAVE recently seen a suggestion that the Sane states get together and kick out the Insane ones, a sort of Reverse Secession, and i'm okay with that solution, but I doubt any such thing will ever be considered seriously.
Try that with your wife. She'll end up with way more than half your stuff.
If the South really wanted out, they could have worked through congress to dissolve their relationship with the other states on an amicable basis and seen to it that all debts and obligations were satisfied. They chose instead to grab all of their stuff along with the stuff that rightfully the other states had a claim on and play macho and say 'come and get it.'
Well the other states came and got it. Tough s**t.
Fort Sumter is a perfect example. It was a man-made island, built entirely by the Federal Government over the course of thirty years (at the insistence of the South Carolina delegation including your patron saint of disunion, J.C. Calhoon). It was a major boondoggle for those 30 years that pumped money from all the states into the Charleston economy.
Suddenly, South Carolina claims it as their property when they paid next to nothing for it! It would not have even existed left up to South Carolina. Even the wimp Buchanan who loved you slavers would not go along with that.
And how about the millions the Confederates stole from the other states in taking over US arsenals, mints, forts and other federal facilities even before the first shots were fired at Sumter? Your sainted ancestors tried to run away with the store because you thought those dough-faced mechanics from the North would never be men enough to fight you. Well, they ended you kicking your grand paps ass and you are not man enough to get over that fact.