[Nellie Wilkerson]

Nope. Thomas Jefferson said any people anywhere have the right to ALTER OR ABOLISH .... The Confederates chose not to do that, but simply to WITHDRAW -- and there was absolutely no law or Constitutional provision that prohibited it. Lincoln's insane notion that the "union" PREDATED the states that created it (LOL!) was what destroyed the republic -- not the withdrawal of the Southern states. (This is like saying a baby pre-existed the lives of its parents.) That's why things have not been like the Founders intended since Lincoln.... If you're proud of Lincoln's destruction of the Founders' republic, in my opinion, you're really weird.