I'm not sure what your point is. None of the other Southern ports were fortified by any troops that hadn't been there when their state left.
What court would have jurisdiction?
Supreme Court. Article III, Section 2.
Well, that would be a court aligned with the nation they wanted to leave, no?
But their only recourse while a part of the U.S.
...so why can a state not leave of its own volition?
Madison said that the logical conclusion of the claim that a state could leave without the consent of the other states is that the other states could expel a state without its consent. Would you agree with that?
Anyway, they tried and got no where except more federal troops and supplies.
Didn't try very hard.
LOL! Really? You've still posting from the body of that (keep it under you hat) letter of Madison's without posting the beginning where it says:
A rightful secession requires the consent of the others, or an abuse of the compact absolving the seceding party from the obligation imposed by it.
James Madison to Alexander Rivas, Jan, 1833.
How totally disappointing. I'd thought better of you.
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>>Pardon my buttinskiness, Mouton, but this was posted to you, so...FReeper etiquette and all that. :-)