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According to most Constitutional scholars, states in the United States cannot secede after they receive statehood. In 1861, there was a clear dispute about this. In the Confederacy, they wrote their constitution based mostly on the US Constitution. Their constitution clearly states that secession is illegal.
Borders do not secede but states do. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were border states that did not secede in the union.
The states that DID NOT secede from the Union was Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These four states did not secede from the Union because They were Border states, meaning they were between the Union and the Confederacy.
In a practical sense, a state cannot secede. I have heard it said that a state would need the permission of the other 49 states to secede. In theory, 75% of the states could ratify a constitutional amendment allowing - say - California to secede. That amendment would be the supremem law of the land, and no federal action contrary to the amendment would be allowed.
Borders do not secede though some states did.
They didn't "secede to" anything, but to form a new government called the Confederate States.
Florida was one of the first states to secede from the Union.
South Carolina was the first to secede.
yes. the 14th amendment does not forbid the states to secede from the union.
Congress maintained that it was treasonable for a state to secede from the USA. The South maintained that the USA had started as a voluntary union of states, and that any state was free to quit.
what were the slave state that did not secede and join the confederancy