Kindly demonstrate how the US Constitution denies the right of the individual states to secede from the union in the name of “We The People.”

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The prevailing view appears to be that the individual states had voted themselves into a virtual “gulag” when they agreed to ratify the US Constitution in 1789. In other words that the states had acceded to a prison from which there was no escape when they adopted the new constitution, and that the only way to escape from the clutches of the US Constitution was through force of arms.

I do not understand what the legal basis was for Lincoln’s actions. As I understand it the US constitution delegates only certain limited powers to the central government, and that all other powers that aren’t delegated to the central government are left to the discretion of the individual states.
 
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