lincolns legal posistion was no secesion existed, or could exist in law, because no state had ever been sov,at any time in its history, the Union as a contract gave sov to the states, sov had never been with the seperate states, the only way out of the Union was by revolution, otherwise thats it in law as he argued it.
Since he said the Union was a perpetual contract, no secession was possible, because the partys (ie the states) to the Union had no sov, it made it unlawfull to leave, he recognised a right of revolution and thats all, he said the AoC and the Constituition, and SCOTUS rullings were all irrellevant, not of any of it mattered in law as sov never rested with the people or the states seperatly, all the court rullings were irrelavent because of a basic asumption over where sov was, and was a wrong asumption, this had created a century of states as minoritys having more influence over the federal government, and was what was wrong with the political system, he said vote for me and i will change it by making it as it should have been, the will of the magoirity is supreme in a democracy.
So lincoln legal posistion was A. he freely admitted that people understood that the AoC and Constition and Scotus all pointed out that as not so, he simply disagreed, and run for pres on the grounds if im right vote for me and i will take it you agree with me and i will act in acordance with this understanding of an error in our history and stop it, i will not recognise the supremacy of the states over the federal government.
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