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The Divided States of America?The term "union" implies "joined together', If the south (the Confederate States) had successfully seceded from the union, (and become a separate nation within the US), the United States would not be indivisible. What makes us strong is what our name implies, UNITY. The only way to maintain the union was for all the states to remain united. Otherwise, we would now be living in the "Divided States" with the core of the country owning slaves. A house divided cannot stand (as at its middle it is weak) and niether can The United States of America.
One of Lincoln's arguments is that the United States Constitution contains no provision for the secession of a state from the union that the Constitution establishes. However, what the People have established (The Constitution) the People can change. One wonders if the Confederate States could have succeeded if they had tried for a Constitutional amendment establishing a procedure for secession.
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