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Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis

Lectures in History

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The Union Subsisting Between South Carolina and Other States

The union subsisting between south carolina and other states under the name of the united states of america is hereby dissolved. This is an acknowledgment of the problem of secession, right? If you withdraw from the union, does the union continue to exist? Lincoln is going to make the same kind of claim once he is going to give his inauguration in march. The idea is that the constitution only functions through comedy, right? Through this compromise framework. And if one state withdraws, then the union is dissolved.

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