Civil War arguments

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The government is people. People are the government. How can you not see that?

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Under the rules, the governments "just" powers are derived by the consent of the people. Under the rules, there was no consent to the powers the government had assumed. At that point, under the rules, it was no longer a government of the people -- and hasn't been ever since.