It isn’t enumerated in the Constitution as you well know. That doesn’t change the fact that they way the south went about quitting the union was illegal and immoral.
And for that they paid a dear price.
“It isn’t enumerated in the Constitution as you well know.”
Well, let’s see, now. Not enumerated in the Constitution ... that means what? Something about rights ...
The Union army didn’t only make the Confederate Army pay, they took it out on the women and children, too. They stole their food and livestock, tore up their fields, and burned their homes and left them to starve. They did other things even worse. I don’t care what you say, the Confederates didn’t fight their women and children. Sherman was ruthless and cruel. Its been well documented. Slavery was wrong and maybe the war needed fighting but they could have extended the same courtesy to the southern women and children that the south did to their women and children. After all, enemy or not they were still fellow Americans.