24 dic 1860 año - Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession

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SC's secession document. First to formally declare it. Cited the failure of the federal government to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act over personal liberty laws in northern states. After the war, many southerners claimed that secession was to preserve states' rights, but the complaint of the first ordinance listed the federal government's failure to exert its authority over the northern states. *hypocrisy intensifies*

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