I think states can secede.
I also think (and know from past experience) the country can try to prevent it if it decides to.
The civil war showed both of my statements to be true.
The outcome, however isn’t automatically that they cannot. If the seceding side can win, they can and will secede.
I also think (and know from past experience) the country can try to prevent it if it decides to.
The civil war showed both of my statements to be true.
The outcome, however isn’t automatically that they cannot. If the seceding side can win, they can and will secede.
Your argument boils down to "might makes right."
Yes, people with power can defeat those who have lesser power. The actual issue is whether or not states had a legal right to secede, and/or a moral right to secede.
And the evidence with which I am familiar is that "Yes", states had a right to secede. The government had no right to stop them.