[doryfunk]

US Constitution - Ammendments 9 and 10, Bill of Rights

9 -The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10 - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

According to ammendments 9 and 10 of the U.S. Constitution, secession is clearly legal. While secession is not a power specified for the States, that should not be used to say it is not a power of the state per ammendment 9. Secession is clearly not a power delegated to the union nor does the constitution specifically bar it from the States. Thus, as a right that the States and the people had before as illustrated by their secession from the crown, it is a power reserved to the States and the people. Clearly secession is constitutional.

[WhiskeyPapa]

According to ammendments 9 and 10 of the U.S. Constitution, secession is clearly legal.

The people retain the right to maintain the Union, which is what they have done.

You know, of course that Jefferson Davis, citing language identical to language in the U.S. Constitution, said that the central government could coerce the states in the matter of conscription. And if in conscription, why not secession?

Walt