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What would it REALLY take to secede?

I'm not talking about guns and ammo. I'm talking about a theoretical legal manner for a state to decide to leave the union.

I'm not a lawyer, I don't play one on TV. I'm a not so humble Mechanical/Nuclear Engineer.

There is a mechanism built into the Constitution to join the Union by creating a new state. But can someone discern if there is a way for a state to take a legal path to leaving the United States?

Would it take a new amendment?

Or is there something existing in the Framework that would allow it?
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