[Luis Gonzalez]

"In my view the Constitution says nothing explicitly about secession."

Demonstrably false.

In the Constitution's Preamble, the intent of the document is put forth as being "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

Posterity means all of the offspring of a given progenitor.

It was then agreed that the Union was perpetual, to add a clause making the dissolution of a perpetual union illegal would be unnecessarily redundant and needlessly repetitious.

(yes, I intended to be redundant in my statement about being redundant)

[Courdeleon02]

Wow! that is really a lose interpretation. Nothing like reading something into a document that says no such thing. You must be a liberal constitutionalist.

[4CJ]

It was then agreed that the Union was perpetual, to add a clause making the dissolution of a perpetual union illegal would be unnecessarily redundant and needlessly repetitious.

Bwahahahahaha! It was NOT agreed the union was perpetual - a word that had been used 5 times in the Articles of Confederation & Perpetual Union was dropped. The states seceded from the Articles! Repetitious? 5 times in the old agreement, ZERO in the new. Even a single mention would not have been repetitive.