A lawfully elected Senate (in accordance with Article I, Section 3 [Clause 1]—without a constitutional amendment—passes the Crittenden-Johnson War Aims Resolution, stating “That this war is not being prosecuted … in any spirit of oppression … conquest or subjugation … but to defend the maintain the supremacy of the Constitution … and to preserve the Union.”

       [added 3/20/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

8/20/1862                    9/22/1862

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.

Crittenden Resolution | Teaching American History
teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/crittenden-resolution/

Crittenden–Johnson Resolution – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crittenden%E2%80%93Johnson_Resolution

Lincoln Was A Racist and the “Civil War” Was NOT About Slavery – PaulCraigRoberts.org
www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/07/20/the-cause-of-the-so-called-civil-war/

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,214,325,271,235

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