[4CJ]

The court does not issue advisory opinions. The first time the issue was presented in 1862, the Court referred to the secesionists as "traitors".

Back a few posts you wrote the following, "The Supreme Court said otherwise well before the war."

Again, please grace the uninformed among us where the Supreme Court ruled BEFORE the war that the states WERE chained to the union, that secession was unconstitutional.

[lentulusgracchus]

Again, please grace the uninformed among us where the Supreme Court ruled BEFORE the war that the states WERE chained to the union, that secession was unconstitutional.

Bump, with the exception that we don't need to see any more Jay or Marshall obiter dicta channeling Hamitonian cheek music about amalgamation.<p.