“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.” ― Robert E. Lee
The United States of America were a group of states bound together by covenant. They created a federal government to facilitate their arrangement. They conceded particular powers to this federal government in order to form a union.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” — The Tenth Amendment to United States Constitution
The War of Northern Aggression was fought over that arrangement. Along with the victor of the North was created a new government. After that, it was no longer a group of independent governments, or states, willfully joined by a shared federal government. It was now one federal government.
“Basil Gildersleeve pointed out, the Civil War was fought over a point of grammar. Shall we say ‘the United States is’ or ‘the United States are’? That is a point worth revisiting.” — Douglas Wilson
As General Lee pointed out, the dissolution of the "the United States are" led to an aggressive disposition towards other nations and a despotic disposition towards its own citizens. In short, the only hope for America was the South. Since the North won, America, as we knew it, is no more. Leviathan consumed the land of the free.
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