Archived The SCOTUS case that ruled secession from the United States illegal (en.wikipedia.org)
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Archived The SCOTUS case that ruled secession from the United States illegal (en.wikipedia.org)
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It is unfortunate that one state could be used as the basis for de-legitimizing secession, especially as union with D.C. was a conditional one that was based around recognizing the rights of each state to assert themselves and it was around this that they decided to be in union with each other.
I think one can reduce the definition of a state being in union with the union as a matter of having representation in Congress and on this basis alone being a part of the Union should be something determined by Congress and ultimately by the people of the state who Congress represents.
The secessionism of the Confederacy was not built up on some aristocratic call for sustaining and preserving their specific positioning in the Union; that being that they be allowed to own slaves, but rather on the popular call of the people to ensure that the states had their rights respected, that they were not over-taxed/did not have tariffs enacted on their goods, and were not having their arsenals seized by the Union.