[capitan_refugio]

More to the point, Chief Justice Chase in Texas v White opined that a state could conceivably leave the Union - with the consent of the other states.

The 10th Amendment fallacy did not help the southerners in their defense of unilateral secession. There is NO RIGHT to unilateral secession.

[fortheDeclaration]

The 10th Amendment fallacy did not help the southerners in their defense of unilateral secession. There is NO RIGHT to unilateral secession.

No government could come together with the proviso that anyone and anytime could leave!

Even the Confederates could not survive that.

It would not be a compact of states but a coaliton of sovereign nations, more like the EU.