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I still have an issue of why things such as nullification and secession ever made it to the courts. Perhaps I am mistaken but if it had than why in each instance such as the tariff crisis and the civil war there is no mention of court action.
Most of the time the executive branch and/or congress took military action or threat thereof to bring them back into line.
Was it ever even decided on by the courts whether or not the states could secede?
Did a court make a determination that the south could not secede before the civil war? In Civil war study I have never come across a decision by the court on the matter of secession before the war, maybe even after.
Of course this is off of memory and I may need to check up on it. So be free to correct me in this matter.
And what about Texas? I thought a long time ago in elementary school I remember reading about where part of Texas agreement to become a state included a clause allowing it to become independant once again if it decided to.
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