Source, please.
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All it could do was invalidate its state government,
LOL! That's a legal impossibility. A State government cannot invalidate itself, nor can it be invalidated by an inferior power. I've already posted legal sources to illustrate that it is up to the State whether or not to abide by the Constitution.
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ruin a lot of property, and get a lot of people killed. Unfortunately, some of the wrong people got killed.
Yeah. Too bad the federal government just didn't follow the Constitution and adhere to Law of Nations like it was SUPPOSED to.
Withdrawing from the contested areas and sending an ambassador to the government of the Confederate States to discuss recompense would have kept a LOT of people from dying.
Jim wasn't kidding about multiple posts.
[sorry, guys]
Of course the Confederate Government could have withdrawn from the contested areas.... at least, until some country, any country recognized them... Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
We would be hearing the southern partisans writing their complaints from Antarctica.
But the federal government is not inferior to the state governments. Since state governments were created by the federal, it would be the state governments that were inferior. The federal government, by contrast, was not created by the states, but rather was created by the previous Union to be more perfect.