[Right_Wing_Madman]

The right to secession was a final check on the Federal government if it turned against a state.

A "right to secession" clause is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. However, the Declaration of Independence legitimizes secession. It's all about secession.

[central_va]

A "right to secession" clause is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

True. So secession is not unconstitutional either.

[DiogenesLamp]

A "right to secession" clause is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

There is also nothing in the Constitution forbidding it. And why should there be? Everything to be said on the subject was said 11 years earlier when they signed the Declaration of Independence.

However, the Declaration of Independence legitimizes secession. It's all about secession.

Yup. The Declaration says people have a right to secede.

[Jonty30]

It doesn’t have to be in the Constitution to be a right. There are 18 enumerated rights reserved for the federal government that it can override any state rights on that are related to the 18 enumerated powers.

Any powers not enumerated to the federal government belongs to the state. The Federal government has 18 enumerated rights and all other rights belongs to the state via the Tenth Amendment. Since not one of the enumerated powers of the federal government covers preventings states from leaving, a state has the right to leave.

The only thing the federal government can do, if a territory applies to join the Union, is that they can place conditions upon states entering. They can’t stop a state from leaving.

[jeffersondem]

“A “right to secession” clause is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.”

And the right to drink cherry infused Dr. Pepper is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

It doesn’t need to be.