[Repeal The 17th]

I am of the belief that the voluntary union formed in 1776
was effectively dissolved in 1860 by the secession of South Carolina
(and the subsequent states who followed suit).

Lincoln, out of brute force, brought forth a new nation,
dedicated to the proposition that all men should bow down
and the states should tremble with fear at the power of the federal government.

This is not your founding father's Oldsmobile.

[Little Pharma]

The treasonous tantrum of the south was not even recognized by the Union. Secession was a hiccup in the history of the United States, but a necessary hiccup. After the war, any state that joined the union realized that statehood was for ever.