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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 263300, member: 66&quot;]No, the CSA successfully seceded, but they went to war with what was left of the US and lost becoming an occupied territory.&nbsp; Then over time the various states that made up the Confederacy, left the Confederacy ad rejoined the Union.&nbsp; Since the government of the Confederacy had been overthrown they had no way to try and prevent the states from leaving.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the southern states had failed at succession then at the end of the war they would simply have simply returned to where they were before the war and taken their place in the Union government again.&nbsp; But that did not happen.&nbsp; Instead they had to &quot;Jump through various hoops&quot; passing various laws, adopt three amendments to the US Constitution, etc. before they would be allowed to rejoin the Union.&nbsp; If they had to rejoin, then it stands to reason that they must have succeeded in leaving.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that there were requirements that the southern states had meet to rejoin also should also establish the precedent that it IS possible to leave the Union.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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