We can choose whether or not we want the federal to representative us.When they step over the limitations of being our agent then they have oversteped the Constitution. The Constitution is silent on secession but Jefferson wasn't. I wonder if we are even a compact since we are prohibited by the Constitution from forming one with other states. The states have their own independent government but it is the people that are invested with sovereignty by God. The North is responsible for the war between the States and primarily by protestant ministers and abolutionists. Lincoln was bound and determined that the government would be centralized.He could have done this without starting a war. The Southern States have every right to secede when unrepresented by their agent.