The United States as a nation was more than a magazine subscription that you could drop at the slightest whim. There were commitments and shared responsibilities.
Never-mind that the “oppression” that the south claimed never rose to the point of legitimate protest, there was a right way to secede and then there was the way the south went about it.
They initiated the problem, they provoked a war, and then they suffered the consequences. I do wonder how things might have turned out had they gone about their secession honorably and legally.
My guess is that they would have been consumed by the Brits.
“The United States as a nation was more than a magazine subscription that you could drop at the slightest whim. There were commitments and shared responsibilities.”
which part of the Constitution was that in?
Obviously. But would you care to cite the specific clause of the US Constitution that prohibited State secession?
Of course not....
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Never-mind that the “oppression” that the south claimed never rose to the point of legitimate protest, there was a right way to secede and then there was the way the south went about it.
If you believe Mr. Jefferson (Kentucky Resolutions)) and Mr. Madison (Virginia Resolutions), it was up to the people of the individual States - not you - to judge whether the terms of the compact had been abided by...
They initiated the problem, they provoked a war, and then they suffered the consequences.
Actually. it might be said that the North "initiated the problem, they provoked a war," and the South "suffered the consequences."
I do wonder how things might have turned out had they gone about their secession honorably and legally.
And how would that have happened, in your enlightened opinion? Please cite the US Constitution in your reply.
I won't stay up waiting.
Yawn...
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