If you had read my post #869 the writer I sited covers this. Indeed your mentioning of “the people” supports the unconstitutionality of secession. The 10th amendment in limiting the power of the federal government gives sovereignty to TWO entities. One is the states, and the other is THE PEOPLE. Thats all the people of the whole nation as a single unit. It mentions the people as separate from the states. If you read my post you will see the framers felt that the federal government was answerable to THE PEOPLE and not to the states. The people as a whole(through the federal process), the whole nation, can only constitutionally allow states, groups of states, heck even parts of states from leaving the union. The writer goes on to explain how the civil war might have been classified a revolution but then does goes on to explain how it wasn’t.
NO action requires unanimity of the states, the powers are to the states severally and independently. The same applies to the people - the people of the several states, not the entire people. Their is no action that the people of any state can perform for another state. The motion to submit the ratification of the Constitution to the amalgamated people did not even receive a second. Historical fact refutes the absuridty of that position.
i just believe that you have been propagandized by the unionist fanatics.
the union was created as a "creature of" the STATES. (it is NOT the creation of the people.)
thus the STATES are still FREE to modify, withdraw from or abolish that union, at any time of their CHOOSING.
free dixie,sw