“Was the South justified in seceding from the Union?”

During the Civil war period the South felt that they had the reasons they had seceded from the union were justified, however they were not. The south had no justified reason to secede from the union. They were still bound to the constitution, had no legal right to secede, and broke numerous laws such as forming an illegal alliance and attacking the United States (at Ft. Sumter). The constitution was created as the basis of …

…be justified as to why the seceded from the Union. This is due to the facts they were still bound to the constitution because seceding cannot be legally justified, they had formed an illegal alliance and their arguments such as the Election of 1860 are irrelevant because it violates the constitution. I leave you with a quote from Andrew Jackson; "No secessions can ever take place because each one slowly destroys the unity of the nation."