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 Posted: Sun Dec 9th, 2012 02:01 am
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Mana: 
 I have read and reread Texas vs White. It sure sounds like they ruled that secession was not legal in 1861.

From Wikipedia.


In accepting original jurisdiction, the court ruled that Texas had remained a state ever since it first joined the Union, despite its joining the Confederate States of America and its being under military rule at the time of the decision in the case. In deciding the merits of the bond issue, the court further held that the Constitution did not permit states to unilaterally secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give effect to such ordinances, were "absolutely null".[