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by IntrepidWorm 1372 days ago
If the threat of secession requires going to war over, it would seem that no, secession is not a legally supported process.
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But could it not be possible to allow the secession of a state by an ammentment to the constition?
Why bother?

If things went so far that the secession is desired it is already a civil war, and constitution of 'some people out there over the creek' doesn't matter.

I think that was the lesson of the 1860s.