wasn't the basis of the government founded on each state having full sovereignty with the union only being used for in these instances:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
other then for the above reasons/situations the states were to be independent acting on their own in the welfare and governance of those that reside within the states borders.
"Good luck getting federal disaster aid after a hurricane strikes if you have seceded from the Union."
the above is just how the centralized excutive federal government has blackmailed the states for years to knuckle under to the federal system.
highway monies, education monies, all dangled in front of each state to be used to bribe each state into following the federal mandates. example as:
55mph speed limit, seat belt laws, busing of children just to name a few that are popular.l
when reading the whole senario ... isn't the union meantr to be a voluntary contact between the states only, as long as the federal government doesn't impede into the states governing powers. when the states decide they have been wronged, then they have all rights to disengage from the union.
same principle as the writings of the maga charta of 1215 except the feds represent the king.......
a forcible action of keeping the states within this union is the same principle used by stalin, and all the other despots of the 20th century. berlin wall......
sorry, but doesn't freedom....mean choice of will whether a contact is implied or not.
remember a contact is an agreement between two or more CONSENTING parties. when the means of the contact are violated then the contract has no power upon either party forcing them into agreement.
such is the princple which our earlier grand ol' union was based upon
sewerman