... people strongly disagree. For example, the opposing side would argue that the issue of secession was never mentioned in the Constitution, which allowed the South to secede due to Amendment 10 (The Constitution). Amendment 10 states, "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 ... without the consent of Congress making it legal for the eleven southern states to secede. Nonetheless, "New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union;" (Article IV Section 3 of the Constitution)....

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