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...... These Southerners also believed that individual states had the right to nullify or overturn any law (Causes of the Civil War, Internet) passed or ratified by the Union government, due to feeling that each state in the South was a sovereign entity. In addition, they also believed that each state in the South had the right to leave the Union and thus create their own independent nation. However, most people in the North believed that these concepts of nullification and states rights (Causes of the Civil War, Internet) threatened the national security of the country and allowed the citizens of the South to practice a form of laissez faire government, all at the expense of African-Americans who toiled in the fields from sunup to sundown as slaves
As to the alleged right of Southern states to secede from the Union, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America (CSA), did not hold back his feelings at his inaugural speech in February of 1861. It is the right of the people, Davis declared, to alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive to the ends for which they were established (Causes of the Civil War, Internet), a clear

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