“Looking for legit answer. If a majority of States elected to secede would it be possible or preventable?
I’m not advocating secession.”
It would be possible for even one State to secede with the consent of the others or without their consent as long as they did not try to prevent it, so the answer to the question is it possible is “yes”.
As to whether or not it’s preventable, it might depend on which States and how enthusiastic the remaining States were about doing the preventing.
If the majority of the States elected to “secede”,stay together and form a new General Government, would it even be secession?
When the United States changed the form of it’s General Government from that under The Articles of Confederation to that under the Constitution, the decision was that the ratification by nine States was enough. If the other four had elected to not ratify and to go there own way would they be the ones who seceded or would the first nine?
Remember, it’s a Union of States that agreed to a General Government, actually two of them, and to a Constitution and before that the Articles of Confederation. Take away the General Government, take away the Constitution, and you still have the Union.
Sorry, to follow you over to a different thread. Here, however, it does seem that you agree with me. It must just be some terms I used that caused the misunderstanding. Then again, I didn't spend some 30 posts clarifying our differences as I had with non-sequitur.
To clarify, my whole concern had been with the principle of the State and the sovereign people of the state having the right to secede, which has all kinds of thorns, brambles and pitfalls in which one can get lost.