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Suppose near the end of the festivities Benjamin Franklen got the floor and said, in so many words, that it should be explicit in the Constitution whether on not states have the right to secede? I wonder if the Convention would vote it up, down, or neither? Was there any indication that Franklen would never do it?

IMHO mass movements in the USA have always needed a huge dollop of self-justification. IOTL both sides in the seccession contest claimed the Constitution bore them out. What if it became impossible for one side or the other to make that claim? I don't think they could blow that off.
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