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me- At this point I'm suggesting that one or more states could have taken their grievance to the US Supreme Court and obtained a favorable ruling from it on the constitutionality of seccesion.

you-If the States still in the union had a problem about it, then they should have taken it to the Court.

Your statement makes no sense. I am talking about 1860, before Lincoln takes office, before the first state attempts to secede. All the states are still in the union at this point.

It would have created a precedent...

[thatdewd]

Your statement makes no sense. I am talking about 1860, before Lincoln takes office, before the first state attempts to secede. All the states are still in the union at this point.

LOL (you're making my sides hurt) - Why would they go to the Court to inquire about secession when they considered it a right and had no questions about it. That's silly. You're confusing issues. No wonder, given all the waltrot about it posted by the neo-unionists. They did not see secession as something requiring any Court action. It was simply a right, and they did it. Once again, if the other States that remained in the union thought it unlawful for them to do so, then they should have filed grievance before the Court.

It would have created a precedent...

LOL - It was a right established at the formation of the Constitutional union and did not require a "precedent".