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Ambiguous Words
Title: Ambiguous Words
Category: History
Details: Words: 952 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ambiguous Words
Essay Question: “Southerners maintained that secession was the ultimate expression of democracy, while Lincoln claimed it was rejection of democracy. How
did they explain and justify their principles.”
On December 20, 1860, the Confederacy was born when South Carolina
seceded from the federal Union. The Union and the Confederacy severely clashed in
their views on the Constitution; the South felt that individual states should have the right
to nullify laws, while Abraham Lincoln believed the federal government …showed first 75 words of 952 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 952 total…Constitution and the Declaration of Independence lacked an explicit clause concerning
blacks as “men” and states’s rights. Lincoln believed that “the longevity of the Union
proved its legitimacy against anyone seeking its dissolution” (Jones 25). However, the
Confederacy felt that the federal government wanted to encroach upon their natural
rights as American citizens. Even though Lincoln and the Confederacy had
disagreements and contrasting interpretations of the Founding Father’s documents, war
generally solved their contentions.
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