Before Lincoln, the United States was a voluntary association of member States. After, it is vassal states subject to federal authority at the point of a rifled musket.
The surrender at Appomattox was the death of the American experiment.
And the Feds made this point crystal clear with the military occupation of the south.
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.
Before Lincoln, the United States was a voluntary association of member States. After, it is vassal states subject to federal authority at the point of a rifled musket.
The surrender at Appomattox was the death of the American experiment.
And the Feds made this point crystal clear with the military occupation of the south.
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.