re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

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Here you go friend:

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I mean that's interesting, because of the citizenship issue. And it does mention some were worried he would prove it was legal, but this assertion is not supported:

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Remember, the US Government pardoned Jefferson Davis because they were afraid he would prove in court that secession was legal.

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First of all everyone was pardoned as long as they applied for it.

And despite the concerns that he would prove the legality, his defense was trying to argue double jeopardy instead. And besides, a few years later they was a SCOTUS decision regarding this so those unsupported concerns seem especially irrelevant.