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Did any state have a right to leave the union?

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Lincoln on Secession. Soon after Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency in November 1860, seven southern states seceded from the Union. ... 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.

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