[Bigun]

Sophistry! Pure Sophistry on both your part AND that of Chief Justice Chase!

The "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union" (That is the TITLE of the document for pity’s sake) repeats the exhortation of perpetuity five times in the body of the document as well as in it’s title but that was dropped entirely by the new Constitution. Are you and Chief Justice Chase seriously trying to convince anyone that the framers, who were entirely familiar with and imported, word for word, entire clauses from the Articles into the Constitution left out the references to "perpetual" by accident?

[Non-Sequitur]

Let me guess, you disagree with the Chief Justice's interpretation of the Constitution. Well, there isn't a lot that I can do about that. There have been Supreme Court decisions that I've disagreed with, too. But in the end your approval or disapproval doesn't mean spit. Unilateral secession as practiced by the southern states is a violation of the Constitution, and it will remain so until the Constitution is amended or a future court overturns Texas v. White.