[Non-Sequitur]

The right to seceed is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution. It’s not prohibited by the Constitution either, so by the very text of the 10th Amendment, that right is reserved “to the States respectively, or to the people.”

No but the right to admit a state to the Union and approve any change of status once it's allowed in is a power delegated to the United States.

[ClearCase_guy]

No but the right to admit a state to the Union and approve any change of status once it's allowed in is a power delegated to the United States.

I think it's your turn to paste in the actual text of the Constitution which covers a "change of status" of an existing state.

Hint: If the language is not explictly in the Constitution, as an enumerated power of the federal government, then such a "change of status" is a right reserved to the state, per the 10th.

[paladin1_dcs]

I agree that the power to admit a new State is a power delegaed to the United States, but where does this right to approve a chage of status come from and what right does this confer? Change of status from what to what?