Paul doesn’t know history very well. The slavery issue was a sidebar—it was the War of Northern Aggression. The Southern States were fighting for their right of self government—slavery was one of the issues pertaining to that. The North was trying to do exactly what the democrats are trying to do now—eliminate States Rights...When he wrote the Emanicipation Proclamation, is was to dictate to the Southern States that Federal Law supercedes State Law. That is what the war was about. So Paul’s statement shows a total lack of historical understanding.
That's how I see it too.
I'll ask you a question I've asked other sovereign-staters (and received no coherent response) since I first started reading these exhausting threads. If every state is a sovereign state, then are all states, including the ones that were created by the federal government before and after the Civil War, sovereign states (including my state of Wisconsin) and have the right to secede at any time?