[r9etb]

All federal laws are not supreme to the states in all matters. The Federal government is only supreme to the state government in regards to the powers enumerated in the Constitution.

Article VI mandates an oath by state officers to support the Constitution. A decision by those officers to secede violates said oath. It is in addition a clear act of insurrection, the suppression of which is a power allocated to the Federal Government.

Case closed.

[bravedog]

Who says you need officers to authorize secession? The People of Texas voted for it last time. No legislature had any part in it.

The bottom line is that the People choose their government, regardless of Article VI, or any other claim you try to make. If a woman asks for divorce, that doesn't give the man a right to put a gun to her head and force her to submit. That's exactly what the North did to the South.