re: If Lincoln had Honored the Constitution ...

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Is it your belief that the founders would have been ok with a secession?

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Of course they were, have you not read the 2nd amendment?

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Context is important, they were there as free states with the purpose of forming a union of states, but because they didn't trust large centralized government they wanted to ensure that should they choose to leave the Union and become a free state, that the federal government would not be able to prevent them from obtaining the means to defend their now free state. That's what the 2nd amendment is for.

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”