[WhiskeyPapa]

The Constitution bestowed the highest attributes of sovereignty exclusively on the federal government

Walt, anything DELEGATED cannot be more sovereign than those delegating it.

Don't tell me, tell President Buchanan.

All the neo-confederate rant falls before one incontrovertable fact. Hundreds of thousands of loyal Union men came forward to fight and maintain the Union under the interpretation I (and President Buchanan, among others) present.

Walt

[4CJ]

Hundreds of thousands of loyal Union men came forward to fight and maintain the Union under the interpretation I (and President Buchanan, among others) present.

Almost two thirds of the country - almost HALF of the Yankees based on the 1864 election results, sided with the Confederacy.