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Originally Posted by dyna mo
actually, you're the revisionist. the secession was not treason.
the Constitution created a confederation of sovereign states.
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I find a lot of debate an uncertainty about whether a state can secede in the way the confederates did it.
Some say they had no right to secede and others say they did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
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After the American Civil War, no person involved with the Confederate States of America was tried for treason, though a number of leading Confederates (including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee) were indicted. Those who had been indicted received a blanket amnesty issued by President Andrew Johnson as he left office in 1869.
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