[lentulusgracchus]

In your world some states ARE more sovereign than others and CAN tell other states what they can or cannot do.

You mean like, half-a-dozen Northern States getting together and sending a million bayonets south, to tell Virginia and the Carolinas what to do?

Lincoln's original plan, remember.

[Non-Sequitur]

You mean like, half-a-dozen Northern States getting together and sending a million bayonets south, to tell Virginia and the Carolinas what to do?

No, like half-a-dozen Southern states getting together and walking out, repudiating any responsibility for their share of debt and national obligations and stealing all the property they could get their hands on.

The rebel plan, remember?