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Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis

Lectures in History

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Are the States in Rebellion or Are They a Separate Nation?

Now that the lower south is one and the upper south is gone from congress, you have mostly people who want to get rid of slavery. This is tricky because strongly believes that the constitution protects slavery where it already exists. And again, we come back to that problem of, are the states in rebellion, or are they a separate nation? If these folks in these states are in rebellion, can we take their property, property and quotation marks, can we mess with their institution of slavery? Probably not right.

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