the constituition said that the states were joined forever.
The Constitution said that the states were joined forever.
The president.
New England's population was very adverse towards the war and threatened secession.
Officials of the US government may not accept a gift or position with a foreign government without the consent of the Congress.
As a private citizen prior the the start of the US Civil War, George B. McClellan watched the political events surrounding the sectionalism between the North and the South. He had followed the course of the secession crisis closely and hoped that a compromise could be reached. He was not optimistic about this and the onset of the war was not a surprise to him. He was an opponent of secession.
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He was Wisconsin's senator
Depends. If the governor engaged in talks of secession, then yes.
Congress
C.I.A. Director.
no
President Abraham Lincoln spent a good portion of his 1861 inaugural address on the issue of secession. That part of his speech took the form of a detailed legal brief denying the constitutionality of secession. His words dovetailed the illegality of secession with his oath as president to hold, occupy and posses the property and places belonging to the US government. He equated secession with anarchy.