If there is no law that either allowed or prevented the act it can’t logically be “legal”. At best it could have been characterized as “extra-legal”. That they did so in defiance of the rest of the union showed their true illegal intent. And a Supreme Court decision put the question of unilateral secession to rest. For reasonable people at any rate.
If there is no law that either allowed or prevented the act it can’t logically be “legal”. At best it could have been characterized as “extra-legal”. That they did so in defiance of the rest of the union showed their true illegal intent. And a Supreme Court decision put the question of unilateral secession to rest. For reasonable people at any rate.
Of course its legal. The states had that right from the start and never surrendered it. EACH state is sovereign and EACH has that right. The Chase court’s decision was a laughable might makes right decision we are no more bound to respect than Dred Scott or Plessy vs Ferguson...at least for reasonable people.