The Gettysburg Address
In Our Time: History
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The Tenth Amendment and the Revolt of the South
The tenth amendment simply says that all powers re not expressly given to the federal government, or forbidden to them, are given to the states. So so southerners interpret this to mean that they the right to secede. This is where it's very, you know, this is where the opening sentence is important. The revolution was a once and for all event. And a civil war, there's no such thing s a civil war. When it was called the war between the states men, lincoln uses the phrase civil ar but legally, he didn't believe it was a civil war."
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