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Was Secession A Constitutional Right? 1868 Book Concluded It Was

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Was Secession A Constitutional Right? 1868 Book Concluded It Was. “In order to show that the Constitution is not a compact between the States, the position is assumed, that it is not a compact at all. If it be a compact, say they, then the States had a right to secede. But it is not a compact; and hence secession is treason and rebellion. The great fundamental questions, then, on which the whole controversy hinges are, first, Is the Constitution a compact? and, secondly, Is it a compact between the States?”

Albert Bledsoe, Was Secession A Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861 (1868) Get the Book Here

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  1. KATNISS EVERDEEN on May 13, 2014

    I TOTALLY AGREE HEHE…..THE STATES HAVE A RIGHT TO SECEDE. IT HAS NOTHING IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT SAYS OTHERWISE.

  2. Wil Shrader Jr. on December 19, 2012

    It’s not a belief, it’s a fact. It is not simply because the 50 States are sovereign nor because it not explicitly prohibited by the U. S. Constitution. From the Declaration of Independence:
    “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

    Is that not what secession accomplishes?

    • Wil Shrader Jr. on December 19, 2012

      I am not saying that the Declaration of Independence grants this nor codifies it into law but that it invokes this inalienable right, which by definition and nature requires no enumeration by Man to be true.


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