So your saying that the federal government can do anything they want and the states have no recourse. FDR proved the executive can bully the superems, Maobama has proven the congress can be made irrelevant so if a state gets so fed up they just have to eat shit, is that what your saying. If the answer is yes, we are no longer a free people.
And you never answered who could be an unbiased arbiter if a state wanted to sever.
The legitimate authority for striking down unconstitutional laws is the Supreme Court.
As I said FDR threatened the court with adding justices and got them to allow new deal laws where similar laws were striken as unconstitutional prior to that point.
The legitimate authority for dealing with unlawful acts by a president is the impeachment process.
What would the current president have to do to get this senate to vote for a conviction, I would say anything short of a video taped murder would be a though sell.
The Constitution can be amended by the People.
The 50 states have collectively made more than 600 request for an article 5 convention, how many have we had? Can you say zero!
You claim it's about freedom, but when any state secedes, would it ever be unanimous?
Was it unanimous when the colonies declared independence, hell no, we don't live in a perfect world, if we did this whole subject would be moot.
What about the 'freedom' of the residents of that state who don't want to secede?
They can move to another state, simple concept. That was the intent of federalism in the first place, limit federal power and if the state does something you don't like you can move, if the feds do it, there's no escape.
Do you just subject them to the tyranny of the majority in that State? If it was wrong at the federal level,isn't it just as wrong at the state level?
The whole point of federalism is to keep the majortiy of the power close to the people, at the state and local level, where they can most easily affect change.
Can your county secede from the state on the principle of 'freedom'?
If the majority of people in a state feel change needs to be made they can affect that chang pretty effectively, that goes in all smaller political subdivisions. Read the 9th and 10th amendments, the feds were never intended to have the power they have now, the states were intended to have the majority of the power execpt the sepcific powers granted in the constitution.
Can your township secede from your county?
Can you and your 2 acres secede from your township?
At what point does someone in the minority have to accept that fact?