[Non-Sequitur]

I’m not a Constitutional Scholar, but when I was in school, I was taught that both California and Texas had the right to secede from the union. This right was incorporated into the treaty between the California Republic and the US when California joined the union. Texas is in a similar situation as the only other nation to voluntarily join the US.

For that to be true would mean that those states have a right denied to every other state - a situation that nothing in the Constitution supports. It also ignores the fact that both Vermont and Hawaii were also nations before they became states.

[MS from the OC]

Wouldn’t that depend on the terms of the treaties bringing the various states into the union? If one included the right to secede and others did not.....

[calex59]

Tell me what article or what amendment specifically forbids the states from seceding from the Union? I will answer for you, NONE do, there is nothing in the constitution that denies states from seceding therefore they have the right o secede under the 10th amendment.