Rebellion
Noun
Open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resisance to an established government.
I'll defer to Mr. Davis:
I'll defer to Chief Justice Chase:
"When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.
Considered therefore as transactions under the Constitution, the ordinance of secession, adopted by the convention and ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null. They were utterly without operation in law. The obligations of the State, as a member of the Union, and of every citizen of the State, as a citizen of the United States, remained perfect and unimpaired. It certainly follows that the State did not cease to be a State, nor her citizens to be citizens of the Union. If this were otherwise, the State must have become foreign, and her citizens foreigners. The war must have ceased to be a war for the suppression of rebellion, and must have become a war for conquest and subjugation."
"When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State."
Show me where the word "perpetual" appears anywhere in the Constitution and your case is made! Until you do it isn't!
If Chase had said "When Texas became one of the United States she entered into a relationship. All the obligations of union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State." he would have been correct.
Big deal. You defer to Ginsburg, too.
an indissoluble relation.
There's absolutely no such thing and anybody that argues otherwise is a complete and total idiot.