Since the beginning of the union of the states, the right to succeed has continually been tested. Whether the are reasons severe enough to be considered, or ones that will be forgotten and resolved, the question has been continuously asked if it is acceptable for a state to secede from the union. The amendments were created to protect the rights of the people; if not all the amendments are observed, but instead are violated, the people should have the right to secede. However, before the secession is agreed upon, the state should carefully consider all options; only if the union is doing more damage than benefit should the state seriously consider. This is the exact decision Britain was given. The union with Europe was hurting not only Britain but also Europe its self. Both government and people were put at risk. This was not, however, the case with the outbreak in 1860 in the south. The south aspired for slavery, and if that meant seceding, they would have it, not because it was better for the people. A state should have the right to pull away from a union if: the government is causing more damage than benefit, at least two-thirds of the people of the state vote …show more content…
to leave, and the people believe they could do better on their own. The Constitution was created for the people and amendments were instituted so that the government could do no permanent wrong to the states. In the Preamble, the people agree with the government that they will cooperate if all their rights are protected. The people state, that together, the people and the government will, “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” All twenty-seven amendments should be protected, and while there are many amendments for the government to uphold and respect, the people should be the primary concern. The happiness and prosperity of the people are at stake if one of the amendments is contravened; consequently, the people have a right to do something to counter injustice. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If a state agrees upon secession, then two-thirds of the people should also vote in favor. If for reasons of their own, the relationship between state and union is unhealthy and is injuring the people more, then the succession of the state should be overseen. However, all options should be carefully examined before secession is determined. If the government is for the people, then the decision of withdrawal from the union should be given to the people. No government should stop the people if they are being disabled rather than assisted. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain left the European government with 51% in favor of leaving and a 72% turnout altogether. With almost no control of what happens in Britain, the British people decided it was best to vacate the union. The British were dealing with the laws given by the European members who were not living and experiencing the country themselves. To provide an example of a ghastly law given to the British people, they, as part of the European Union, were only allowed to catch 20% of the fish swimming in British territorial waters. What this meant was that tens of thousands of jobs were lost and they were not able to use one of the most significant resources given to them, as Britain is surrounded by ocean. Nigel Farage, Leader of the UK Independence Party, says that his fellow Englishmen “ effectively gave away the ability to look after one of our greatest resources to a bureaucracy based in Brussels.” Because of the way the government was set up, “Not only could the voters not change anything, but the institutes themselves are incapable of reform.” With an already maimed government, the European Union was creating more problems than it was solving. The British had had enough of giving up their rights as British citizens so the European Commission could tell them how to live. Therefore, with problems like those arising from the Union and with no hope to suppress them, Britain filed for secession and pulled out of the union altogether. Threats to leave the United States have had a feature in the country’s politics since it’s birth.
While most threats of secession have quickly died, the most serious case happened in the year of 1860 and continued into 1861. Eleven southern states declared they would secede and together they proclaimed themselves as the Confederate States of America. The white population of South Caroline had strongly supported slavery since the 18th Century, and they wished to secede due to the majority of the union resolving to give up slavery. When war broke out, 57% of South Carolina’s population was enslaved, and 46% of white families owned at least one slave. The outbreak of the South was extinguished in 1865 with slavery being demolished, and the idea of succession smothered from the minds of the
Americans. For succession to be permitted the states and the government must agree the relationship between the two is not adequate, in more than one way. The United States was a nation that was still being formed when the South rose up. Abraham Lincoln would not let the union be divided over a matter that could be resolved. His famous quote stated, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become “all one thing or all the other.” While secession should be an option for the states in a union, it is a serious matter and should never be taken lightly. The question of whether secession should be allowed to the people is a question that has been pondered since the beginning of the United States. Because of the weight of such a decision, the majority of the people in the state should agree upon succession. With this in mind, the preponderance of Britain decided to leave the European Union on June 23rd, 2016. The Union of the two governments was not being of service to the people in the least. On the contrary, in 1860, eleven southern states tried to leave the union entirely on matters that could be resolved. However, President Lincoln would never agree to the breaking apart of the union. Therefore, for succession be an option for a state the government must be doing a severe wrong and damage to the state that cannot be ignored or corrected in some other way. If the state and the people in it believe leaving the union will be better for the people and the government than I conclude a state should have the right to withdraw from a union.
The South seceded in part out of growing awareness of its minority in the nation. The Union held twenty-three states, including four border slave states, while the Confederacy had eleven. Ignoring conflicts of allegiance within various states, which might roughly cancel each other out, the population count was about twenty-two million in the Union to about nine million in the Confederacy, and about four million of the latter were slaves. The Union therefore had an edge of about four to one in potential human resources.
The election of Abraham Lincoln and the secession of the South led to the outbreak of the civil war. The civil war was the first revolutionary change in America. States' rights were a major issue during this time. Issues of power, different interpretations of the constitution, and banking issues led to many difficulties. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. In South Carolina's Declaration of Causes, it was stated that "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states" (Document A). The 10th amendment which limited the power of the federal government had acted as a backing for the secession of the South. Nowhere in the constitution did it say that the states had no right to secede from the Union. This secession from the union forever changed the country. Another major change that occurred after the civil war was the thirteenth amendment which abolished slavery. Even though the slaves had fought for the Union in the civil war, they were unable to take any political action and were still inferior as it is stated in document C. The fifteenth amendment granted the right to vote to all men no matter the race. It was argued t...
The Northern states believed that we should remain as one under the union, while the southern states wanted to secede from the union. In document E John C. Calhoun claims that the states have the right to secede from the Union. The southern states believed that since they voluntarily joined the United States, they should be able to voluntarily leave. But at President Lincoln's “First Inaugural Address”, he claims that secession is illegal and unconstitutional, and that the union was perpetual (Document F). Lincoln also claimed that the constitution binds the states together and that the country cannot legally be broken up.
A controversial issue during 1860 to 1877 was state’s rights and federal power. The North and South were divided over this issue. The North composed of free states and an industrial economy while the South was made up of slave states and an agricultural economy. The South did not like federal authority over the issue of slavery; therefore, they supported the radical state rights’ ideology. South Carolina seceded from the Union because it believed that since states made up the Union, it could leave when it chooses to. The government argued against the South saying that they had no right to leave the Union because the Union was not made up of just states but people. However, the South counteracted this argument with the case that the 10th amendment “declared that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by its states, were reserved to the states.” (Doc A) However, the government still believed that secession from the Union was unjust and decided that a new change surrounding state’s rights was necessary. As a result, when the Union won in the Civil War, a resolution was made, where the state’s lost their power and the federal government gained power. U...
The existence of slavery was the central element of the conflict of the north and south. Other problems existed that led to this succession but none were as big as the slavery issue. The only way to avoid the war was to abolish slavery, but this was not able to be done because slavery is what kept the south running. When the south seceded it was said by Abraham Lincoln that “ a house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” Because slavery formed two opposing societies and slavery could never be abolished, the civil war was inevitable. These were all the reasons why the south seceded from the union, this succession was eminent and there was no plausible way to avoid it.
In the years paving the way to the Civil War, both north and south were disagreeable with one another, creating the three “triggering” reasons for the war: the fanaticism on the slavery issue, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the separation of the Democratic Party. North being against the bondage of individuals and the South being for it, there was no real way to evade the clash. For the south slavery was a form of obtaining a living, without subjugation the economy might drop majorly if not disappear. In the North there were significant ethical issues with the issue of subjugation. Amazing measures to keep and dispose of subjugation were taken and there was never a genuine adjusted center for bargain. Despite the fact that there were a lot of seemingly insignificant issues, the fundamental thing that divided these two states was bondage and the flexibilities for it or against. With these significant extremes, for example, John Brown and Uncle Tom's Cabin, the south felt disdain towards the danger the Northerners were holding against their alleged flexibilities. The more hatred the South advanced, the more combative they were to anything the Northerners did. Northerners were irritated and it parted Democrats over the issue of bondage and made another Republican gathering, which included: Whigs, Free Soilers, Know Nothings and previous Democrats and brought about a split of segments and abbreviated the street to common war. Southerners loathed the insubordination of the north and started to address how they could stay with the Union.
The fundamental cause of the Civil War was the debate over slavery. As early as 1837, South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun stated that “We of the South…cannot surrender our institutions [of slavery]. To maintain the existing relations between the two races…is indispensable to the peace and happiness of both. It cannot be subverted without drenching the country in blood.” Moreover, every sectional pre-Civil War crisis had slavery at its roots. Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850, meant to quell Southern radicals’ calls of secession over the issue of slavery, addressed slavery in each of its provisions. John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, which deepened Southern dislike of the Northern Republican Party, was meant to start a slave uprising. And when South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 186...
What started as a war to prevent the South from seceding quickly turned into a war against slavery following President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. At the start of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate sides believed that they would had a quick and decisive victory. The North’s population and industry was vastly greater than the South’s, but the South had superior military leadership, a large white population that was united against invading Union armies and a hope that France or Britain would intervene on their behalf.
The colonies did the right thing in breaking off, the first reason that it is right is the fact that they were getting constantly taxed and were seeing none of those tax dollars coming back to benefit themselves. In America today our taxes will come back to build museums, libraries, or pay the salaries of people who work in public systems ( police officers
...ld not protect the interest of the Southern states. Coupled with the hostilities, lack of votes for Lincoln from the South and disregard for the constitutional protection of slavery is a justifiable reason from the Southern leaders to secede from the Union.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, there was great conflict throughout the United States. The North and South had come to a crossroads at which there was no turning back. The Secession Crisis is what ultimately led to the Civil War. The North and the South disagreed on slavery and what states would be free states. The South despised Lincoln 's election and rose up in revolt by forming the Confederate States of America. Both the North and the South were responsible for the crisis, but the election of Lincoln had the most impact. All of these factors are what began the war in which brother fought brother.
...om’s Cabin in 1852, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859, and the outcome of the Presidential Election of 1860—created conditions where Southerners felt the need to secede from the United States (they felt that their “way of life” was being threatened), as well as created conditions where the Northerners decided to go to war against the Southern Confederacy in order to maintain the Union. It is not surprising, however, that the Civil War occurred; since the Industrial Revolution, the Industrial North had always been different than the Agricultural South. If each region paid more attention to resolving the issues that separated them, instead of trying to prove themselves right, they could have stopped the bloodiest battle in American history (even though this is using hindsight knowledge).
The main reason for the severance of the colonies from Britain was the lack of equality in parliament and the disregard for colonial needs. Whether it be forcing someone to pay for a war they did not fight or want, limiting one’s need for land, or piling on the taxes, all of these factors played a part in the dissolving of British-colonial ties. The colonists were only human and had the human reaction of defiance to injustice. If the colonists had not of had the audacity that they did, today’s America would be a very different place. Breaking away from Britain was the greatest thing the colonists could have possible done.