Do you believe an abused wife should shoot her husband at the door? or when ever he is looking the other way?
In matters of the union of our government the court that ultimately decides admission or secession is the congress, not the individual states or territories, the congress.
For instance the Philippines, Our congress decided to grant them their independence after WWII, prior to that they were an American territory just like dare I say it Cuba was after the Spanish American war. As was Puerto Rico, s territory which has flirted with Statehood from time to time.
the BOR supersedes EVERY action of the congress-critters/POTUS.
have you EVER bothered to read the 10th Amendment??? - IF the STATES had intended to CEDE their POWER (STATES have POWERS. only PERSONS have RIGHTS) of UNILATERAL SECESSION to the federal government, they would have SAID that they were doing so. they did NOT, thus UNILATERAL SECESSION was/IS LAWFUL & CONSTITUTIONAL.
fwiw, NO state at the time of the founding of this (HIGHLY experimental at that time) Republic would have joined a union FREELY that they could NOT (at their own motion) just as FREELY LEAVE.
free dixie,sw
as we "wild Texicans" say, "he needed killing."
fyi, some years ago, in my home county, a brother "blew away" his brother-in-law, with a 12guage pump-gun, after the SECOND time that the husband put his sister in the hospital, with broken bones.
the big brother was indicted/tried & the jury "stayed out" about 10 minutes.= NOT GUILTY.
free dixie,sw