> Eliminating the states' rights aspect entirely leaves you without valuable context Except claims about states' rights are without any historical basis. They

> Eliminating the states' rights aspect entirely leaves you without valuable context Except claims about states' rights are without any historical basis. They were concocted fifty plus years after the fact to cast the Confederates in a noble light. As others here have pointed out, articles of secession specifically call out preservation of the institution of slavery without any assertion of states' rights.