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If they were not States, or were States out of the Union, their consent to a change in the fundamental law of the Union would have been nugatory, and Congress in asking it committed a political absurdity.
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gutenberg.orgAndrew Johnson: “If they were not States, or were States out of the Union, their consent to a change in the fundamental law of the Union…”
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He argues that if the Southern States were not part of the Union, their consent to constitutional changes would be meaningless.
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