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Katey asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 2 years ago

What were the constitutional problems during and about the Civil War?

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  • 2 years ago
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    Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and threw a congressman into jail without trial for speaking for the Confederacy at Mount Vernon. Look up ex parte Vallandingham

  • 2 years ago

    All of the Southern states signed the United States Constitution. The Constitution is a legally binding document; therefore making it illegal for any states to secede from the Union.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    "Constitutional issues leading up to and during the Civil War;

    and postwar issues aside from Reconstruction"

    https://pages.wustl.edu/calvert/civil-war-era-cons...

    It took me 5 seconds to do the search for you ... you're welcome. Or were you looking for someone to do your assignment?

    The Constitution does not directly mention secession. ... The Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the Constitution to be an "indestructible" union. There is no legal basis a state can point to for unilaterally seceding.

    Texas v. White, (1869), U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that the United States is “an indestructible union” from which no state can secede. ... After the Civil War the Reconstruction state government filed a suit in the Supreme Court seeking to recover the bonds, then held by citizens of various states.

  • Athena
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Besides the fact that the South Constitutionally was allowed to leave?

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    No essay questions please.

  • 2 years ago

    Slavery and votes

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