LOL - Once again, and as always, you are wrong. Most Constitutional scholars (good ones) will cite the 1863 date, since the cases were not heard until February of 1863 and the decision rendered that year. They were filed in December of 1862, but not heard or decided on until the next year, 1863, because the Court wanted to wait until a new Justice was seated. So much for that controversy. However, in regards to more important issues, like what it was they decided on, your idiotic statements regarding the finding of the cases were wrong. Just as you were wrong in saying it was unanimous. The Supreme Court's decision on the "Prize Cases" did not decide secession was illegal. Nor did it declare the war an illegal insurrection. It did not even deal with those issues, they were not the point of the cases. They only thing the Court decided was that it was constitutional for the President to react to a state of war (irregardless of what type) without waiting for Congressional declaration. Once again, and as usual, you are wrong.
The United States attorney said that, not me.
I think they have a real neaty cool medication to replace ritalin now, by the way. You act like you need it.
Walt