[Svartalfiar]

Article I, Section 10, paragraph 1 “ No state shall, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS enter into any Treaty, Alliance or CONFEDERATION;....paragraph 3; No State shall...enter into any Agreement or Compact with another state, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War....

And these only apply to states within the Union. Once a state has seceded, any restrictions on the state in the Constitution no longer apply to that state. It's a sovereign entity, completely separate from the US. It has retaken these powers it ceded to the US when it joined the Union.

As for Washington, he warned against several things, such as geographical fractures (N-S and E-W), political fractures (two-party system), and foreign influence being the big three. He said we'd have to work to keep the Union together, never saying it was permanent. His address implies a full belief that states can leave the Union.

[arrogantsob]

Read the Constitution, it makes it clear that individual states do NOT have complete sovereignty. Read Article I, Section 10 and tell me about “sovereignty”.

[BillyBoy]

>> Once a state has seceded, any restrictions on the state in the Constitution no longer apply to that state. It's a sovereign entity, completely separate from the US. <<

But good luck if the state's name is "Texas" and it seceded from the United States and wants to be a completely separate, sovereign entity that remains neutral. If that's the case, and the Governor happens to be a man named Sam Houston, pro-confederate forces will storm the capitol and FORCE the state to join the confederacy and be subservient to the CSA's federal government back over east in Richmond, VA.

So much for "states rights" then!