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