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None of you Yankees know what you are talking about.....States were territories before they were accepted as states. They also fall under "other property belonging to the United States."Clause I,Article IV - The States
Section 3
Clause 1:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Clause 2:
The Congress shall have Power
to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
This does not address secession, as no new State was erected, within the jurisdiction of a State, unless you refer to YOUR U.S. Erection of West Virginia.
Once the States seceded, they were no longer party to YOUR U.S. CONstitution, and had any one of them decided after their legal secession decided to erect a new State within the jurisdiction of another they would be free to do as they choose. However such did not occur.
As for clause II...,
A State is NOT a territory, nothing outside the ten miles square of DC was under the jurisdiction of the "federal government", aside from armories, dock yards, forts, and other needful buildings .
YOUR own SCOTUS rendered several opinions in regard to this, one of many being pollards lesses v Hagan, which stated that once a territory becomes or is formed into a State with its own government, the U.S. Has no municipal jurisdiction within a State, such would be repugnant to the CONstitution.
There are several other such SCOTUS opinions in this regard prior to the YANKEE rebellion.
Your citation does not apply as you wish, YOUR ownSCOTUS has stated such.
Sucks to be you.
A lot of traitorous confederate scum said shit like that right up until a certain afternoon at Appomattox Court House.
Keep choking on that bile, wannabe idiot.