Please, kind master, grace the uninformed among us where the Supreme Court ruled BEFORE the war that the states WERE chained to the union, that secession was unconstitutional.
The court does not issue advisory opinions. The first time the issue was presented in 1862, the Court referred to the secesionists as "traitors".
Walt
No use asking him for an honest answer -- all he's got is the old lies Marshall told, and MacPherson's new ones, and Mark Neely's partisan icepick job. He's got all the Red historians you'd ever want not to read, except to find out how infamous their lies are.
Notice that the liars always quote the Preamble -- the leftovers of the Hamiltonian amalgamation document that was repudiated and used for fishwrappers by the Constitutional Convention -- because they can't quote anything else to push their bull about an arc-welded Union.
Buncombe and road apples, all of it.