And what legal reference do you back your opinion up with?
The South had votes within their respective States to leave the unions.
In some. In other states it was an appointed convention that took them out. In two instances, North Carolina and Arkansas, the people voted down secession and the legislature took them out anyway. And that's not including the pseudo-confederate states like Missouri and Kentucky.
They voted to leave the union they earlier voted to join. It is their decision, their destiny, their desire, their votes, their States, their property.
There share of the debt they repudiated...their share of the obligations they walked away from...and it was U.S. property they stole which is to say it belonged to all the states and not just the ones stealing it.
. The North needed the South’s money and developed resources and refused to allow them to leave. It was about money, as it always is.
Absolute nonsense.
“And what legal reference do you back your opinion up with?”
None. I actually know the Constitution says nothing about leaving the union, and I do not need to infer what it might say. I also have not said it is a matter of a legal issue as you have. I understand rights and the difference between right and wrong. I understand the implications of Might is Right.
See, you take the approach that the federal government somehow owns the States and that they are not sovereign States as they are. I have read the founding father’s comments and know they never intended ownership by the federal government.
It is like a divorce, the beaten women need not ask her abusive husband for a divorce. He won’t grant it anyway. She simply leaves him.