okay; if it were so commonly believed there would have been no conflict, would there...?Can you post the article/sect in the US Constitution codifying that unilateral state secession is not allowed? Thanks in advance.
""Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever."
Jefferson Davis, Pres. CSA.
As Shelby Foote said so suscently, before the War Between the States everyone said the United States are, but after the Civil War, everyone said the United States is.