The Constitution Did Not Cause the War in 1861 – Abbeville Institute

The Constitution Did Not Cause the War in 1861 – Abbeville Institute

Many especially Southern historians believe that the Federal Government established by the thirteen independent American States with the ratification of the Constitution of 1788 was directly responsible for the war of 1861, thus destroying the rights and sovereignty of all the existing States and making of them mere “legislative counties” charged with and limited to fulfilling the will of that...