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To: X Fretensis
What article of the Constitution of the United States give a state a method of leaving the United States.

Arguably Amendments 9 & 10

#9 says that any enumeration is non-exhaustive and merely not-being listed is not grounds for denial of it. (A good example is travel at will; not enumerated but essential to a life of liberty.)
#10 Says that the powers not [explicitly] delegated to the federal government remain the purview of the States (or the people themselves).

As there is nothing in the Constitution denying to the states the power to leave they must still retain it. (Such prohibitions are explicitly laid out: prohibition of ex post facto law, prohibition of entering into treaty/alliance/confederation, prohibition against bills of attainder, etc.)

33 posted on 08/01/2014 1:12:56 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

To my knowledge none of the states that seceded in 1861 cited either amendment in their ordnances of secession.
Nor did any of those states try to make a court case based on those amendments.


34 posted on 08/01/2014 7:22:02 PM PDT by X Fretensis (How)
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