He favored a broad interpretation of the Constitution.
The US constitution confers no rights to Americans as citizens. It does however, do so for US citizens.
America's founding fathers also had some framers of the Constitution in their ranks. Most historians agree that the founders and framers of the US Constitution envisaged the treaty making process to be the mutual agreement between US president and the US Senate.
southern states would not agree to a constitution that banned slavery
They did have the right to leave the union, it says so in the constitution.
The north.
The major disagreement that helped unfold the US Civil War was the view by Southern states that they had the right to remove themselves from the United States. The primary view in the North regarding slavery was that most believed it should not extend to new territories and new states. They and Lincoln were fine to let it exist where it already existed. The US Supreme Court in 1859 stated that slavery was constitutional. Therefore only an amendment to the US Constitution could abolish slavery. This was passed in December of 1865, the 13th amendment.Also, for many Northerners, the secession of the Southern slave states ended the problem. It ended if the South was allowed to secede. US President Lincoln decided that it was better to keep the US united at any cost. This was not a national view point and Lincoln's presidential run did not claim he intended to end slavery.
They had to dissolve their Confederate state governments, and re-apply for their place in the United States under the US Constitution.
they are in favor of it
they were not in favor of it
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That person would have a 'strict' construction view of the Constitution. The other view is termed a 'loose' construction. The loose view believes if the Constitution doesn't prohibit the act (or law) it is okay.