Your whole position now is reduced to saying that states have to wait for Congress to pass a law restricting their rights before they can exercise them. That’s an indefensible proposition, and certainly not a conservative one.
All it would take to remove that right completely, if your position were correct, would be for Congress to simply not act. POOF! The rights of the states are gone. Ludicrous.
There is a right to secede, but the Constitution that was agreed to by the states says that a state must allow the congress to pass the general laws of that act and the effects thereof. No right has been restricted, it was there from the beginning, and agreed to.
All it would take to remove that right completely, if your position were correct, would be for Congress to simply not act. POOF! The rights of the states are gone. Ludicrous.
The representatives of that state could bring secession up in the Congress and try to pass the way in a state secedes. If the Congress won't agree on a way or indefinitely waits, then there would be no argument that the process wasn't followed. But as it stands, that's never happened.