[4CJ]

The phrase 'No State' refers to a member of the federal republic - by seceding the state and her citizens are no longer bound by the terms of the federal Constitution. Secession is NOT prohibited.

[Heyworth]

"It is the nature & essence of a compact that it is equally obligatory on the parties to it, and of course that no one of them can be liberated therefrom without the consent of the others, or such a violation or abuse of it by the others, as will amount to a dissolution of the compact."--James Madison