OK. let me change that to “the states would not have ratified the Constitution if UNILATERAL secession had been prohibited.”
John C. Calhoun, one of the greatest and most brilliant statesman that ever lived believed in unilateral secession.
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Quote please. Specifically stating the unilateral nature of the secession.
John C. Calhoun, one of the greatest and most brilliant statesman that ever lived believed in unilateral secession.
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln - all statesmen at least as great and as brilliant as Calhoun - did not. And most of those believed secession of any kind to be illegal and unconstitutional, at least Madison recognized that secession with the consent of the states was permissible. Sorry, I'll take my statesmen over your one any time. Heck, even dim bulbs like James Buchanan recognized secession for what it was, rebellion. So how hard could it have been?