The Constitution of the CSA was almost identical to the US Constitution. The Confederate Seal shows George Washington on his horse. If Washington had been around in 1861 he would have sided with the South, for the exact same reasons Lee would not take up arms against his state (country).
Lee and Washington are interchangeable men in history.
Plus all that extra stuff about slavery.
If Washington had been around in 1861 he would have sided with the South, for the exact same reasons Lee would not take up arms against his state (country).
It's hard to say what somebody would do in a strange situation if you pluck them out of their own historical context and plump them down in an alien one.
Washington, though, had a political sense and was a statesman. I don't think he would have passively let things drift to the point where he felt he had to fight on one pre-determined side or the other, as Lee apparently did.
He would have been active in deliberations. IMHO he would have spoken out for preserving the union he helped create as long as he could. He wouldn't have been "personally opposed" to secession and kept his mouth shut about it. It's true that Washington didn't like to be in the limelight, but he knew how to work through associates to move the public.
Whatever path Washington chose, he wouldn't have drifted into it, as Lee did. He wouldn't have stayed on the sidelines and then assumed that wouldn't "his state" was something that he passively had to follow. He also might have had qualms about turning his back on his oath and long-time loyalty to his country.