This country was established as the result of a secession movement. The notion that secession is somehow “illegal” by any objective measure is ludicrous.
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We did not ‘’secede’’ from Britain. We declared ourselves free people with rights given to us by God, not by a degenerate monarchy that thought itself superior by dint of ‘’royal blood’’.
The South seceded from the Union in order to preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor.