Did South Carolina have the constitutional right to secede? - What was Abraham Lincoln's rationale for opposing secession?
- How strong was South Carolina's rationale for seceding?
- What does the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment after the Civil War indicate about the issue of secession?
- What evidence do the various historians provide to support their point of view? Which pieces of evidence do you find most convincing?

From the context:

- Confederate States of America, "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union"
- Daniel A. Farber, "The Fourteenth Amendment and the Unconstitutionality of Secession"
- Craig Symonds: "Did South Carolina have a Constitutional Right to Secede?"
- Harold Holzer: "Did South Carolina have a Constitutional Right to Secede?"
- Chandra Manning: "Did South Carolina have a Constitutional Right to Secede?"
- David Blight: "Did South Carolina have a Constitutional Right to Secede?"