Article I, Section 10 and Article IV, Section 3.
Article I, Section 10 and Article IV, Section 3.
Let's go through this sentence by sentence.
Section. 10.
Clause 1:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Nothing in here about secession
Clause 2:
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
Still nothing about Secession
Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Nothing about secession in here either.
Section 3
Clause 1:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union;
Applies to new states, Nothing here about Secession
but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State;
Again, new state, nothing about Secession.
nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States,
Again, new state, nothing about Secession.
without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Still nothing about Secession
Clause 2:
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States;
This covers property belonging to the US. The states did not, and do not belong to the Federal Government.
and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
Again, still nothing concerning Secession.
Those were the only clauses in those areas. Am I missing something or is there something in there hidden that I don't see. Nothing in that article or section refers to a state not having the right to seceded.