Abolitionist writer Lysander Spooner, reflecting on the outcome of the US Civil War
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No it was not. This is a lie. The articles of confederation were discarded. the 1780s where an absolute shitshow. Washington, Hamilton clearly understood that a strong constitution with a strong, centralized government was required to repel foreign interlopers and build a real country. The states signed it and thereafter, for all time, you live by that law or you can pack your shit and leave.
Is exactly what the South was trying to do and what the North was fighting to stop.