''The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;''
''to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;''
A legal debate on the US Constitution is the purview of SCOTUS.
And since Secession from the United States would make the United States a party to the case... also SCOTUS.
The CSA was upset that Article One Section Nine provides for the US Congress to limit the ''importation'' of persons after 1808, and the interstate commerce clause in Section Eight provides that the US Congress could limit the movement across State lines of the same. The CSA Constitution worked on limiting any effect those clauses may have on slavery.
The US Constitution also did not provide that any group or person, regardless of the title ''State'' could attack a federal military installation for any cause.
Had they attempted what was being proposed in NH, it would fall to a ruling of SCOTUS... and a bilateral agreement for the separation, but with the unintended consequences that I pointed out, and many others that would need resolution.
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