“It is also FALSE that the constitution allowed a Conditional Ratification. It was designed to create a “more perfect union” not one that could be unraveled at the whim of a state.”
That’s of course the view that Lincoln held. But as Charles Adams shows in his “Cromwell” essay that isn’t how those who ratified the Constitution saw it.
That is exactly how Madison and Hamilton saw it. It was explicitly addressed in the New York Ratification Convention. Madison nixed the idea in a letter to Hamilton.
These are the greatest experts on the document which would have never been written but for them.
Washington even warned of the dangers of secession in his “Farewell Address.”
Secession from the Union would be like puncturing a balloon without deflating it.