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For the Same reason that most couples when getting married don't plan for their divorce. The option is there but you want to focus on the positive outcomes as much as possible to encourage that outcome. By simply granting the Federal Government the powers necessary to admit new States you don't have to explicitly State how those same powers could be used in secession. Also most all cases of Secession would not be mutually agreed upon and at that point any Constitutional provision would likely be ignored.

I reckon I just don't buy that argument. As for the the divorce analogy, it's far easier to enumerate a division between 2 entities. But when we're talking about a Union, formed to, among other things, secure the blessings of liberty, I can't see where secession is legal when the process is not specifically stipulated; and when it can be resonably argued that if said Union could dissolve, my liberty could dissolve as well. The Constituion promises my that my liberty is protected. I can't see how it would also allow me to lose my liberty by way of self-destruction.