When the South Carolina tried making those noises during Andrew Jackson days (a Southerner), he told them that he would hang them all for treason.
When the Northeast states tried pulling out of the Union during the war of 1812 it was the Southern states who said that they had no right to do so.
The South under the philosophy of Calhoun was anti-American, a rejection of the Declaration of Independence, that all men were created equal, not some meant to be workers and others meant to be masters due to the accident of their birth.
may i gently suggest that you turn off your PC, go to the library and do some origional research on the comments/opinions of those at the Constitutional Convention?
none of the state's delegates would have freely entered into a contract of union from which they could never have just as freely left.
that is fact.
jackson was, despite being a southerner, an autocrat who really believed in liberty for the elites,regardless of his public comments. he did not believe that the common individual had separate rights, apart from the whole.
in other words, he wanted more personal/government power.
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