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One possible solution would have been to permit the southern states to secede. The constitution is vague on this point, giving a procedure to add states but not to eliminate them. However, the constitution clearly states that all rights and powers not delegated to the Federal government are kept by the states. Since the Federal government wasn't given the ability to remove states from the union, one interpretation was that the states really did have the right to secede.

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Q: If you were president in the 1800s how would you solve the disagreements between the north and south to avoid impending the civil war?
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