The New York Journal of Commerce editorializes on the Right of Secession:
Opposing secession changes the nature of government from a voluntary one, in which the people are sovereign, to a despotism where one part of the people are slaves. Such is the logical deduction from the policy of the advocates of force.
[updated 10/4/2026]
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Authority:
Article I of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Thomas DiLorenzo, “Yankee Confederates, New England Secession Movements,” Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 152.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War, (Roseville, California: Prima Publishing, 2002), 109.
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