Maybe you should actually read the Lemmon decision before you keep relying on it. And as for the state laws that the South Carolina declaration mentioned, every single one that was reviewed by the Supreme Court had been overturned. So again, it's was a non issue. The Constitution had been upheld by the federal government at every level.
An excellent point. There was absolutely none.
So the Constitutional rights of the slave states with respect to their property would continue to be upheld. So...what were they really rebelling over? Care to hazard a guess on that?
Probably. If it was an absolute outcome THEN it would be a "non-issue".
And I have read Lemmon. But more to the point it is not I who is relying on it. It is stipulated as such in the text I mentioned earlier.
"So...what were they really rebelling over? Care to hazard a guess on that?"
There is such a stew of reasons -from both sides- there's something for everyone to believe war was justified. I'm much more interested in the legal wrangling that led up to the shooting. Once that started all legal matters are moot.