Assertion: secession | /r/HasProperty | illegal
Facets:
value: de
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Other scholars, while not necessarily disagreeing that the secession was illegal, point out that sovereignty is often de facto an "extralegal" question.
text: It is just one of many sources that indicate that secession was illegal/unconstitutional.
text: Chase, [Chief Justice], ruled in favor of Texas on the ground that the Confederate state government in Texas had no legal existence on the basis that the secession of Texas from the United States was illegal.
text: BTW the source was provided by Carol, not me and an exact quote from the article is "Chase CJ ruled in favor of Texas on the ground that the Confederate state government in Texas had no legal existence on the basis that the secession of Texas from the United States was illegal.
text: A holding that says secession is illegal is certainly a "holding about secession.
text: Let me repeat the quote that I provided before from that source, "Chase CJ ruled in favor of Texas on the ground that the Confederate state government in Texas had no legal existence on the basis that the secession of Texas from the United States was illegal.
text: Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase held that secession was illegal, so Texas could not leave the Union.
text: In that alternate hypothetical, a later SCOTUS would likely have to acknowledge that although secession might be de jure illegal, it had de facto occurred.
text: In November 2006, Alaska’s supreme court ruled that secession was illegal, and said an initiative putting the question to a vote wouldn’t qualify for the ballot.
text: However, Lincoln declared that secession was illegal, and that the Southern states were in rebellion.
text: He tells the crowd gathered around the Capitol that he has no intention of interfering with slavery, but that secession is illegal and the Union perpetual.
text: The justification for the Union in prosecuting the war was simply that secession was illegal and treasonous.
text: True, the Supreme Court held in 1868 that secession was illegal.
text: Jr. There is no evidence that secession was illegal or prohibited by the Constitution, and in fact there is almost overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that secession was a legal, constitutionally sanctioned act.
text: Historian Kenneth M. Stampp, in his book The Imperiled Union, maintains that it is impossible to say that secession was illegal because of the ambiguity of the original Constitution as to state sovereignty and the right of secession.
text: writes that the War Between the States did not prove that secession was illegal because many incidents both preceding and following the War support the proposition that the Southern States did have the right to secede from the Union.
text: But because secession is illegal, and because the President has the duty to see that the laws be faithfully executed, it was and remains the responsibility of the President to enforce the Constitution against states purporting to secede from the Union—by force of arms when necessary.
text: President Abraham Lincoln believed or thought that secession was illegal and strongly opposed and obstructed the U.S. Supreme Court convening and rendering a decision regarding whether or not any state had the right to secede.
text: Because President Lincoln believed and opined that secession was illegal and therefore strongly opposed and obstructed the U.S. Supreme Court from convening and rendering a decision.