> The confederate flag was created for the sole purpose of committing treason Secession is not treason. The Tenth Amendment reads in whole: 'The powers not de

> The confederate flag was created for the sole purpose of committing treason Secession is not treason. The Tenth Amendment reads in whole: 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people'; the Constitution does not delegate the power of separating a state from the union to the United States, nor does it prohibit secession to the individual states, nor does it mandate a perpetual or irrevocable union; therefor it is plainly true that secession is constitutional. Moreover, the same Constitution states 'Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.' Neither advocating for secession nor actually seceding consists of levying war against the U.S. or adhering to their enemies. One might argue that the secessions of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee & North Carolina, coming as they did after the battle of Fort Sumter, constituted treason, but one might instead argue that secession itself was not adhering to the enemies of the U.S., but rather those states removing themselves from the union. None of the following is support for any of the actual secessions of any of the states: each state which seceded did so to preserve the profoundly evil practice of slavery. It is constitutional to secede, but deeply wrong to have done so for that reason. But it is extremely important to be precise about words. The Confederates were evilly wrong about slavery and race, but they were not traitors.