Nor does it state they don't. Which leaves that power where? Thank you.
Nor does it state they don't. Which leaves that power where? Thank you.
If the above issue, session, cannot be resolved politically, then that power resides with the most powerful. The Confederacy thought it was the most powerful, in the end, it was not.
The Constitution was designed to remove powers from the states that they could not, or should not use, such as foreign affairs and to connect the states, in their mutual self interests, with a federal system. The Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican American War upset this balance because of massive lands introduced in these new territories and their implication on the issue of additional slave states for the North or reduced representation in Congress for the South.
As a far West, Westerner (CA), with kin in both the North and South and having listened since childhood to all the arguments, I have concluded that the "Conflict of the 1860's" was all about Eastern power - North or South - over the new Western territories and whether any additional states would be slave or free. The rest is mere prologue.