[BroJoeK]

[unnamed] "Each state was free to determine necessity for itself - just as they did in 1776.
No state required any sort of permission from others to declare independence just as no colony required the permission of the rest of the British Empire to secede."

False.
Both the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1787 Constitution were ratified with unanimous mutual consent of all 13 colonies/states.
No effort was ever made by any state, or small group of states, to "go it alone".

[jeffersondem]

“Both the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1787 Constitution were ratified with unanimous mutual consent of all 13 colonies/states.”

That is an interesting comment: that the Constitution was ratified with (mutual) consent.

As recently as post 1,219 you claimed one state forced ratification of the pro-slavery U.S. Constitution by “threatening” the other 12.

Consent obtained by threats is not consent.

Your arguments conflict. That’s because you don’t have sound schemata.