If that were true, the Constitution requires that the governor/legislature petition for assistance. As it was, even Congress refused to call out the militia when the states seceded, and they went so far as to REJECT a proposed amendment prohibiting secession. Face the facts, several states reserved the right to secede in their ratifications, and the framers REJECTED a motion to prevent secession by military force.
Article I, Section 10 and Article IV, Section 3.
I knew you couldn't, as nowhere does the Constitution prevent secession.
No it does not. Article IV, Section 4 refers to domestic violence, rioting and the like. Article I, Section 9, Clause 15 gives Congress the power to call up the militia to suppress insurrections and says nothing about requiring the governor to call first.
As it was, even Congress refused to call out the militia when the states seceded, and they went so far as to REJECT a proposed amendment prohibiting secession.
The milita wasn't called up until the confederacy initiated the war. And I don't believe an amendment to ban secession would have been wise. No such amendment was needed to ban unilateral secession because it wasn't legal to begin with.
Reservations of the right to secede unilaterally were meaningless because such actions were unconstitutional, and the Constitution trumps local and state constitutions and laws.
I knew you couldn't, as nowhere does the Constitution prevent secession.
And as I have said over and over and over again, it isn't secession that is prevented. It's just secession without the consent of the states.