“ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN THE STATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS BAY, RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, CONNECTICUT, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA”
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SMAN-107/pdf/SMAN-107-pg935.pdf
The United States was a “perpetual union” as far as South Carolina was concerned.
But that was not what was agreed upon.
States were supposed to be permitted to recede if ‘the union’ was not what they expected or beneficial to them.
Really? You’re using the Articles of CONFEDERATION (LOL) as the basis? You know that was scrapped, right?