I guess I was just responding to:

> It’s hard for us to imagine seeing it break up but there is nothing that prevents that except our general desire to live together.

That thing that prevents it is evidently the [EDIT: Supreme Court's interpretation of the] Constitution, so it's not just a matter of losing that general desire to live together. We'd have to at the very least go through the difficult process of amending the Constitution to allow it, in order to actually legally break the union up.

> That thing that prevents it is evidently the Constitution

Laws don't prevent things.

Laws provide a justification for people who want to prevent things fo act to prevent them.

If there is no will, the law does nothing.

Ah I see. I don't see a legal dissolution occurring so that wasn't something I was really tracking (but hey maybe that's the black swan event?). Much more likely IMO is another civil war (unlikely though because we're fat, happy) or the system becomes so dysfunctional that people aren't willing to shed blood to get rid of it, but they largely ignore it.