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I appreciate the attempt to explain to me the history of supreme court rulings; however, since it is now and has been for 200 years the accepted, settled law of the land that the supreme court is the final arbiter on what the constitution means, there really isn't a great deal of room for debate.
Justice Jackson, I believe it was, was quoted as saying "we are right because we are final, we are not final because we are right".




However, I do take issue with your assertion that federal government has "NO" power to repeal their ratification and thus secede. My evidence is perhaps anecdotal, and maybe even a little sketchy, but the Civil War laid to rest any reasonable notion that a state can do just what you say the federal government can't prevent them from doing. That the federal government has before done so, successfully, implies that it surely has at least one source of power to force the condition. Whether it's an ethical choice is a different matter. That the government has the power to do it is beyond question.

I said the STATES can secede, what is to stop them? As I said, Soveriegn Suicide.