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The war was about Lincoln invading Virginia. You turds can't stop equating secession with starting the war. That doesn't justify a war. Secession did not start the war. Lincoln did.
The above is why it's pointless to argue with numskulls like you. No matter how may times your claims are discredited, you keep repeating them
Secession was an illegal act. The states are not countries; they are part of a country, bound to it by a document that is the supreme law of the land.
Was it illegal? Where is that written? Prior to the Civil War, the states viewed themselves as countries. Hence the term "United States." "State" is another word for country, in case you are too ignorant to understand that.
The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution makes the states and its citizens subject to the Constitution and to federal law.
That's only true so long as a state remains in the union. The minute it secedes, the Constitution is null and void. There is no clause in the Constitution that says a state can't secede.
You FAIL, once again.
Sure a state can secede. They have to do it the same way they came in, with the consent of Congress and the other states.
Where does the Constitution say that?
The confederates didn't do that, that's why they had their belligerent asses handed to them, and the question was settled with not only the Civil war, but by SCOTUS later.
The real reason is that Saint Lincoln wanted war, and that's what he got. Anything posted to the contrary is pure blather.
The SCOTUS that "settled" the issue was populated by Lincoln appointed hacks. Of course they were going to rule that Lincoln's invasion was justified. It's inconceivable that they would rule otherwise. Their ruling is totally irrelevant. All it proves is that the Union won the war. If the South had one their court would have ruled that they were totally within the law when they seceded.