Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, delivers his Independence Day address to the emergency session of the Republican 37th Constitutional Congress, distorting the true nature of the voluntary Union: that no State except for Texas “had ever been a State out of the compulsory Union.” That the States had ‘passed into the compulsory Union” before their creation, and created a “perpetual” union under the Articles of Confederation. Lincoln totally ignores the War Powers Clauses of the Constitution and focuses solely upon the unprecedented reverse application of the Guarantee Clause (Article IV, Section 4), claiming that the Confederate States (a voluntary union) must not be allowed to secede lest they abolish their republican forms of government. Also, Lincoln ignores the thesis statement of the unanimous Declaration (of Independence):
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.
[restored 3/20/2022]
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Authority:
Article II, Section 3
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References:
James Ostrowski, “Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act? An Analysis of President Lincoln’s Legal Arguments Against Secession,” Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 160-61.
William M. Weicek, The Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution, (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1972), 183-84.
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