"To reaffirm that Democratic Republic form of Government which they felt was threatened by the election of Lincoln and his exercising of Unconstitutional powers and use of force of arms to repress the Constitutional rights of the southern states."

A federal justice said it more simply... [The South was seeking the right to for a more perfect union by the use of the right of self determination.] I am paraphrasing of course. Again, if the events of 1860-61 were played out today, the acts of Abraham Lincoln and the Federal Government of the United States would be in volation of the U.N. treaty of recognization the rights of states to self determination.

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David Upton