[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Answer this please, why would the senate vote on a bill making secession illegal if it was already codified in the USC?"

I never said that this was codified in the Constitution. In fact what I said is that it is never mentioned in the Constitution. What I asked is where did the founders ever say that there was this power by the states to secede in the first place? I can't find it. However, the writer of the constitution obviously thought this power did not exist. Please read the scholarly research done in post 78.

Tell me something. Did the people in the Southern states have a right to oppress people's liberties? Did the slaves in the Southern states have a God given natural right to rebel against their oppressors?

[central_va]

Tell me something. Did the people in the Southern states have a right to oppress people's liberties? Did the slaves in the Southern states have a God given natural right to rebel against their oppressors?

Slavery was legal, although immoral, it's legacy was part of our country racist past North and South. The manufacturing culture of the North didn't need the slave model so in the early 19th century they sold all their slaves "down the river" to the south. Then they (Northern mercantile class) raised tariffs on imports after making money on selling their slaves to the south. Then they turned against that "peculiar" institution on moral grounds making the hypocrisy factor unbelievable.