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Does the US Constitution embrace confederation as the south insisted during the civil war or federalism as Lincoln argued in response to the south during the civil war?
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The legal and historical scholars are still trying to sort out that question and it is still a topic of much interest among Civil War historians. A small consensus, especially coming out of the Southern Universites and Colleges (including my alma mater The Citadel) takes the view that the Constitution as it stood in 1860 did not prohibit Seccession. Certainly at the time it was the opinion of leaders, both in the North and the South, that the individual states did have the right to leave the Union. Of course the Constitution was ammended after the War of the Rebellion to prohibit seccession.
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