Actually your wrong. As early as 1793 the supreme court ruled against the compact theory (i.e. the states made the federal government) and supported the nationalist theory is that the people as a whole created the federal government and therefor bound the states to it.
Later in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, 14 U.S. (1 Wheat.) 304 (1816), the Supreme Court explicitly rejected the idea that the Constitution is a compact among the states, stating: “The Constitution of the United States was ordained and established not by the States in their sovereign capacities, but emphatically, as the preamble of the Constitution declares, by ‘the people of the United States.’” The Court contrasted the earlier Articles of Confederation with the Constitution, characterizing the Articles of Confederation as a compact among states, while stating that the Constitution was established not by the states, but by the people.
Therefore states do not have the authority to just leave. The only way to legally leave the United states is to pass a constitutional amendment creating such a process. That is not what the southern states did, they started war.
Nice post!
I have not seen that before.
You may need to repeat it before the idea takes hold. ;-)