"Since the power or right of secession was not expressly transferred or surrendered to the Federal Government, as with the other specifically delegated powers, only democrat could not assume that the power to secede was still with the States along with the infinite remaining powers." The 10th Amendment fallacy. The "right" of secession never existed and was not created by the Constitution or any Amendment. The powers reserved to the states, or to the people, were those powers needed to govern. Secession is the antithesis of republican democracy.