The South was Unjustified in Seceding from the Union

The Constitution is the foundation of our United States government; it stands for any kind of bondage between the states and promotes a compact to join together. How can the Southern territory even ask to be justified in breaking such a strong bond, to be justified in ripping a nation in two and destroying the “law of the land” in which America is based solely on? Using the Constitution as legal evidence provides the clearest way to prove the South unjustified in their irrational decision to secede from the Union. The South was also clearly not prepared to make it on their own, as their own nation, with their one crop economy and their sad economic stability. The South sustained valid arguments as to why they seceded but none that solely justified their decision. Their arguments included voluntarily joining the union, the north going...