gatt wrote:

I've been researching and writing the civil war for something like ten years
now. Can't find the part of the Constitution where it says that secession
is legal.

If it doesn't say it's illegal, it's legal. Something about all rights not
specifically reserved to the Federal government are reserved to the people and
States.

After the war, the issue was raised to the chief justice of the Supreme Court --
they were preparing to try Jefferson Davis for treason. The justice opined that,
if they actually brought the case to trial, the court would find him not guilty,
since all the "treasons" occurred when he was president of a foreign country.

They turned him loose. With nightmares about the city of Charleston suing for
the cost of the shot and powder used to subdue Fort Sumpter, no doubt.

George Patterson
"Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got
no clothes on - and are up to somethin'.