If it can be proven, I have no problem with that line of thinking, that every state should have the right to leave, but I never found very convincing evidence. I would also like to be convinced that unilateral dissolution of the old Union, without popular vote etc, was constitutional. Recognition would have been the first step of ending the Civil War. Click to expand.Of course, that's what the South thought, but I think that still no other state recognized the CSA.