If a person openly petitions his state government's elected officials to secede from the United States, is that person guily of sedition or worse, treason? Or is the aforementioned speech Contitutionally protected?
Secession is a sovereign act of the People, and secession conventions are just like conventions to ratify or amend the Constitution. There is nothing "treasonous", either now or in 1861, about secession.
Chief Justice Chase, in his 1869 opinion in Texas vs. White (from which, btw, he should have recused himself, having been a Lincoln cabinet member through over three years of the Civil War), said that secession ordinances were null, void, and illegal. He lied through his teeth. The dissent was better law, but he was a political hack put up there in the CJ's chair by Lincoln himself precisely to do what he did: Homer for the Lincoln Administration and its prosecution of the Civil War.
Admitting that secession was legal and that Texas had done it the right way (Arkansas may not have) would have put Lincoln's War in a whole new, and unflattering, light.
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After Obamy took office any thing other than claiming agents of Fedzilla are God sent and all things regarding White America is now hate filled...Your a Terrorist