[Non-Sequitur]

I think your referring to the CSA...it doesn't exist anymore.

Well, from a legal standpoint it never existed at all.

[canalabamian]

You're smarter than that argument. Whether it was legal or not was irrelevant. They DID seceed and DID form their own government, army, navy, currency, etc. Trying to deny that from a legal standpoint doesn't change any of it. That argument sounds too much like the logic used in determining the definition of IS (not associating you with him).