It settled the issue of secession. No state has the right to secede from the union. Once in, always in.
What you mean is that states don’t have the ability to secede. The states never gave the federal government authority maintain the union by force. The civi war marks the point in history when the US Constitution was rendered irrelevant by the federal government.
What you mean is that states don’t have the ability to secede. The states never gave the federal government authority maintain the union by force. The civi war marks the point in history when the US Constitution was rendered irrelevant by the federal government.