Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. Nah. He knew the southern states were well within their Constitutional rights to leave (prior to leaving, he had been considered one of the foremost experts on Constitutional law in DC) and actually looked forward to pleading his case before SCOTUS. They never let him. As soon as it became evident that his treason etc. case would go to SCOTUS, the government dropped all charges. So...he wrote a book which laid out his argument instead.
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  2. FACT: The results of simple experimentation say otherwise.
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  3.  @chairmanoftheboard11  Lincoln's decision to not only not remove Union troops from forts in the seceded states but to resuply and reinforce them instead started the war. He told his own cabinet that his decision would force the hands of the southern states as they would have to be utter fools to allow such reinforcement. If he had simply withdrawn the Union troops and allowed the southern states to leave, there would have been two countries and no war.
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  4. They're delusional, it's to be expected.
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  5.  @anakinskywalker9848  In the 80+ years between the founding of the country and the civil war, every state threatened to secede at least once over some dispute. Never were they told that it was illegal.
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  6.  @Scorpion122178  There's an important difference there. John Brown actually broke the law. Jefferson didn't.
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  7.  @deannasisson2500  Actually, as far as the Constitution goes, it's still legal. The SCOTUS ruling in Texas v White is the only legal precedent supporting it's illegality...and Texas v White would not survive modern review were it ever challenged.
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