Wrangler
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USSC Justice Scalia wrote an opinion a little while before his murder as to why the Constitution wouldn't let California secede.
Great men can be wrong. A major point in Jefferson Davis' masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, and why he was never brought to trial for treason is the fact that the Constitution does not prohibit secession. Indeed, the ascension of the proposal to the Creature it became was ratification of the States and the power of YES is the power of No. Therefore, it must be a retained power according to the 10th Amendment.
Furthermore, Davis traces the ratification of the Constitution by the Founding Fathers, who specifically debated the scenario of the Creature using force against the States. They settled on the absence of any power enumerated as sufficient guarantee of it ever happening. Under the anti-Jefferson leadership of Lincoln, they were proven very wrong.
What you write is absurd on its face; in the absence of proof text granting such a power, it is not the Constitution that has the power to "let" the States succeed or not. Scalia, relying on a packed Reconstruction era court ruling, is aware the Court does reverse itself from time to time. Most notably, in over-turning baby murdering. This shows, as Huckabee likes to point out, that the Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being.
Truth is issues are never "settled" for all time. Each generation must wrestle anew with moral issues and decide for themselves how best to proceed. History shows the human condition is like an accordion, forever waxing and waning, back and forth cycle. Globalism has its advocates but nationalism is also on the rise with the ascendancy of Trump, Brexit, Italy, Argentina and others around the world.
What any Sovereign State may choose to do.What would Arizona and others do with all those illegals afterward if they did secede?