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My old CW history professor once said that he asked a retired federal judge whether or not secession was technically legal under the Constitution. The judge said yeah, that it was, and that’s why the federal government has never let the issue advance through the federal court system.

You CW professor obviously never read the Supreme Court devision in Texas v. White (74 US 700).

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Seems weird a CW professor would miss that, although my history of the period right after the civil war was hazy but I can’t imagine that in 1867 there were many justices that were Pro-South/Secession at the time, and the vote was still split with 3 dissenters.