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Why did president Lincoln’s argument that secession was not constitutional?

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Explanation:The secessionists claimed that according to the Constitution every state had the right to leave the Union. Lincoln claimed that they did not have that right. He opposed secession for these reasons: 1.

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Answer: the constitution had a clause listing the united states as a “perpetual union” that could not end.

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