The Declaration of Independence, while a historically important document, is not a part of US law.
It isn't law, but it was a declaration, and it declared the right of secession as an American principle of government.
No, it didn't. It simpy declared the Colonies independent from Britain. It set no legal precedet. It is not applicable elsewhere.
There is no provision given in the Constitution for a state to leave the Union.
That's like saying that there is no law which says I can do something ... but unless a law says that I cannot do something, then that thing is not illegal. There is no provision in the US Constitution which denies the right to secession.
Because there is no right to secession. Its a pretty important issue, don't you think? If the delegates had considered it remotely feasible, they would have addressed it. Rather, the Constitution set out to create a more perfect union from the PERPETUAL union established by the AoC. Even your own precious CSA prohibited secession. Talk about hypocracy
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The Revolutionary War and the Civil War are not analogous. The Colonies had no elected representation, while the treasonous states did.
Virginia seceded from old England to preserve free government, and then Virginia seceded from New England to preserve free government. It sure seems analogous to me.
No, it isn't. Like I said before, the Colonies had no representation. The Southern States did. Rather using the legitimate, legal method way of representation in government, they instead chose violence. They didn't get their way, so like a spoiled child they decided they weren't going to play anymore.
The only "state right" the South wanted to preserve was the 'right' to own another human being
No, that just happened to be a most pertinent part of the US Constitution that the yankee traitors turned against.
This sentence is barely coherent. Care to elaborate? What other "rights" were the southern states trying to preserve?
"The Confederacy actively used the military to arrest people suspected of loyalty to the United States. They arrested at about the same rate as the Union arrested Confederacy loyalists. Neely found 2,700 names of men arrested and estimated the full list was much longer. Neely concludes,
"The Confederate citizen was not any freer than the Union citizenand perhaps no less likely to be arrested by military authorities. In fact, the Confederate citizen may have been in some ways less free than his Northern counterpart. For example, freedom to travel within the Confederate states was severely limited by a domestic passport system." [Neely 11, 16] "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_states_of_america#Government_and_politicsYes, truly a bastion of freedom and liberty
Not to mention that 1/3 of their population were completly without freedom (and thats not including women, either).