> Obviously certain capabilities, such as nuclear weapons, would be entirely excluded. Why is that obvious? Nuclear weapons are state assets like anything else

> Obviously certain capabilities, such as nuclear weapons, would be entirely excluded. Why is that obvious? Nuclear weapons are state assets like anything else, and if you're going to follow your logic that a seceding state gets its part of the greater federal it should get some proportion of the nuclear weapons stockpile too. The US is allied with at least three nuclear weapon states whose population is on the order of the population of Texas. Besides, if you're going to setup a system where states can secede and seceding states have to hand over all their nukes you've created an absurd system where the last state to secede gets all the nukes.