[central_va]

Southern Declarations of Secession were not constitutionally valid

Hey Joe, post the article and section of the Constitution making state secession illegal.

[BroJoeK]

central_va: "Hey Joe, post the article and section of the Constitution making state secession illegal."

Isn't the usual answer to that question, Texas vs White?

"... the court ruled that, legally speaking, Texas had remained a United States state ever since it first joined the Union, despite its joining the Confederate States of America and its being under military rule at the time of the decision in the case.

In deciding the merits of the bond issue, the court further held that the Constitution did not permit states to unilaterally secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give effect to such ordinances, were "absolutely null".[2]"