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Okay, as long as you understand that I wasn't intending to pick a fight. As for Lincoln, in the North, the presumption would have been in his favor either way, as the president who saved the Union. I am not sure why that is "ideological", and the Southern position is not. As I pointed out, as states were added to the Union, it was clear that the Federal government created the states, rather than the states creating the Federal government. This is consonant with the Preamble: "We the people of the United States", not "we the United States". At best, a Southerner can make a case for ambiguity, and thus argue that the constitutional issue had to be resolved by force of arms, there being no other means of arbitration...... |
