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delegated to the United States by the Constitution. It is absurd to ask if the power of secession in a state is delegated to the United States by the Constitution, or prohibited by it to the states. No trace of the delegation or prohibition of this power is to be found in the Constitution. It is, therefore, as the Constitution says, reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The convention of the state of New York, which ratified the Constitution of the United States on July 26, 1788, in its resolution of ratification said: We do declare and make known . . . that the powers of Government may be reassumed by the people, whensoever, it shall become necessary to their happiness; that every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by the said Constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States, or to the departments of the Government thereof, remains to the people of the several States, or to their respective State governments, to whom they may ha