Insurrection is insurrection. Which is what the Southern states did.
No. The states in the south did succeed from the union.
The US Constitution had no provision for that, therefore it was left to the states to do just that if they wished.
There is no insurrection of a government you do not belong to.
The “War of Northern Aggression” is the applicable term.
Tell me why the Supreme Court did not take up any case when South Carolina ceded from the union?
It’s not a suicide pact of majority rule. You might like it that way but I don’t.
Every Biden executive order is another shell lobbed by a union cannon on the 13 year old boys and old men starving in the trenches of Petersburg in March 65. These people never owned slaves but were the 1865 version of anti federalists. The civil war was the beginning of the end for us. A big part of that war was the definition of federalism and how that should look in America. Unfortunately we can never have that argument because we can’t unbundle that discussion from slavery