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Who in the nineteenth century used the words ""We the people"" from the Constitution to claim that the southern states could not secede from the Union?

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Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the united states has used these words that " We the people" from the constitution to claim that the southern states could not secede from the union? He was against the secession and considered it unlawful.

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