Gettysburg: Saving the Union at What Cost? | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary

Gettysburg: Saving the Union at What Cost? | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Today U.S. officials criticize, and sometimes even bomb, other governments which forcibly prevent secession. The majority of Americans have come to believe that political arrangements should be voluntary. Thus, the fact that some people want to break away is no cause for war.

That was not the view in 1861, however."