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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (7892)	11/27/2001 4:23:54 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Why couldn't we have given the South [Confederates] their freedom? Because Lincoln didn't want to? I've never found one word in the Constitution that bars secession. Had the independent nations that formed the United States known there was no way back out, there would have been no US. Although, technically, secession is not what set off the Civil War; firing on a federal (Union) fort was. OTOH, people who would become Confederates had been paying taxes for decades, so why should Sumter be only Union property? Confederates had paid to build forts in Union territory, too, and did not demand that they remain solely Confederate property on secession. Czechoslovakia must have had precisely this problem when it split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Solution? Military installations in Slovakia became Slovak property and in the Czech Republic Czech property. Simple. And about the only way serious trouble can be avoided. Because Lincoln wanted to fight? That's the only explanation that seems to make sense.