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Explain how the South used States’ rights to support slavery.
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It was, not slavery but the issue of states' rights, of which the slavery issue was the main concern. Slavery was deplorable, but, at the time, the states had the right to choose to be free or slave. Only the states assembled in a Constitutional Convention could vote to override the federal law of the land

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