wolv67
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Where in the constitution does it give any state the right to form a new compact with other states to form a new central government that could wage war on the other states still in the union? No where that I can see. But what I can see were a handful of radicals commiting treason by trying to bust up the union and throwing a tantrum because they couldn't get their own way.
Do you understand anything about legal contracts? Anything at all? The Southern states signed a legal contract with 36 other states and in those days a man's honor was as good as word. The contract did not give one state the right to break the agreement with all the other states without their consent or a majority vote. The South's renegging on it's contract with the other states showed that the South had no honor and couldn't be trusted to keep it's word.
Those handful of radicals would have gotten nowhere without the support of just about the entire population. The war dragged on because there were irreconcilable differences. No contract will ever withstand one side believing its way of life is being threatened. While I don't much care about the secession itself, and wouldn't mind at all if Texas ever did, in my view the South had no honor because they used slaves. That applies as much to the 1700s too, long before secession.