[Biggirl]

I see a new civil war or another Hondorus in other words.

[lentulusgracchus]

Yup. The Civil War allowed Abraham Lincoln to change our form of Government (although our civics textbooks have never admitted it, because then they'd have to deal with the fact that we had a dictator for four years).

I'm migrating toward the POV that the Civil War was Lincoln's fundamental "secret platform", his way of legally doing an end-run on the Constitution, to strip the Southerners of their rights "legally".