Thanks for the cases. I don't have time to read them now. I scan Chisholm v. Georgia.
The point of disscussion I addressed is whether or not a state, or sovereign entity for that matter, has a right to and can cede. Many state constitutions contain a clause, such as I gave in 111. It embodies the claims and justifications given in the declaration of Independence. The Supreme Court can not rightfully nullify the very justifications used to create the charter responsible for it's very existence. They would logically undermine their own foundation.
The Constitution is supreme to anything in any state constitution, as it clearly states.
That would include ordinances or declarations of secession.
The neo-rebs don't give the founders much credit.
What could the founders possibly have been thinking when they placed on the Great Seal of the United States in 1782 the words: "E PLURIBUS UNUM"?
Did they abandon the Articles of Confederation in favor of the Constitution and just forget that they were no longer "one"?
Walt