[vetvetdoug]

If accession into the Union was allowable, then secession was legal. Rhode Island didn't join the Union until years after the United States was formed. It was in our Constitution for secession until it was changed at the point of a bayonet by Lincoln and his followers. Do you know how many Southern States had Lincoln on the ballot for the election of 1860?

[rockrr]

States joined the union by mutual consent. Unilateral secession has never been legal.