It is also FALSE that the constitution allowed a Conditional Ratification. It was designed to create a “more perfect union” not one that could be unraveled at the whim of a state.
“It is also FALSE that the constitution allowed a Conditional Ratification. It was designed to create a “more perfect union” not one that could be unraveled at the whim of a state.”
That’s of course the view that Lincoln held. But as Charles Adams shows in his “Cromwell” essay that isn’t how those who ratified the Constitution saw it.