Secession is unconstitutional. There is no enacted law prohibiting, but there is little doubt that Congress could enact such a law (though why it would who knows).
There is no provision for leaving the Union. Once the states agreed to join they were stuck for better or worse.
I disagree. Since approval of Congress is needed for a state to be admitted or for any change in their status or borders after admission, then by implication there is no reason why a state can't leave with the approval of Congress as well. In his Texas v. White decision, Chief Justice Chase seemed to hold out that possibility.
“Once the states agreed to join they were stuck for better or worse”.
In other words, the U.S. is like the Mafia or MS-13, once you’ve joined you can never leave.
The United States of Hotel California.
“There is no provision for leaving the Union. Once the states agreed to join they were stuck for better or worse.”
The second statement does not follow from the first.
One simplistic but fair reading would be that since there is no provision for leaving the Union, and since all authority not specifically granted to the federal government is retained by the various States, then the States retain the right to leave the Union.
Please, chapter and verse that proves that secession is illegal. In the US Constitution.
Show me WHERE the Constitution forbids secession.
(You can’t!)
would you care for a "do over", as your post is (to put it as non-controversially as possible) FALSE???
free dixie,sw
"Secession is unconstitutional. There is no enacted law prohibiting..."
Secession is not mentioned in the constitution, it is not prohibited by the constitution, those things not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states...
Where does unconstitutional come into this?
It does not even appear to be illegal, as another has stated - based on your 'no enacted laws prohibiting'.
“There is no provision for leaving the Union. Once the states agreed to join they were stuck for better or worse.”
That would make the states captives or even slaves. The Constitution is, fundamentally, a compact, or contract. Parties to a compact do not forever relinquish their rights. If a party to the compact breaches its obligations and responsibilities under that contract, the aggrieved party has the right to avoid the compact. The Southern states were the aggrieved party, and they withdrew from the compact.
Carolyn
Now you want an unconstitutional act try this one on for size; At the outset of the Civil War, Kentucky’s sympathies were with the South, but when Lincoln guaranteed the continuation of slavery in the Union the state decided to remain neutral.
WRONG! Go back and study up on the Constitutional debates!