On the recordJuly 4, 1861
The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status.”
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In his first message to Congress at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln asserted the fundamental legal relationship of states to the federal Union.
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