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The South did not have had the right to secede because the souths legal justification is irrelevant because they have flaws in their ideology about how the states are taking away their freedom. I found in the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union that one of their justifications for leaving the union is that their slaves should be sent back which makes it another person's responsibility for your own “property” without substantial proof. Another flaw I found in their argument in the Ordinance of Secession of South Carolina is that it says that since the states are taking away their freedom to slaves, they can fight for it when in actuality it is the people who are helping slaves escape, adding even more so to this wrong idea of secession. One last Flaw I found is that they are complaining that their rights are being infringed upon while in actuality they are taking the rights away from African-American slaves making the whole argument hypocritical. In the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union …show more content…

They used the Declaration of Independence to justify their secession which is irrelevant because the declaration states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This statement from the Declaration of Independence completely debunks their argument and makes their ideology seem even less coherent and rational. Ultimately they use the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence which speak of freedom to take the freedom of others and to leave the union because others are not complying with their beliefs about

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