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Lincoln’s stated purpose in the war was to destroy the principle of the Declaration of Independence that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. He succeeded.
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To what degree this principle is violated is up for debate. The government must, by nature of it's existance, gather the avaliable consent and respond to it's mandate.
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# Lincoln violated the Constitution and his oath of office by invading and waging war against states that had legally and democratically withdrawn their consent from his government, inaugurating one of the cruelest wars in recent history.
# Subverted the duly constituted governments of states that had not left the Union, thereby subverting their constitution right to "republican form of government."
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The Constitution of the United States
Article I.
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Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;..."