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In 1869, the question of whether the act of secession from the Union was legal under the Constitution came before the Court in Texas v. White, a case about disputed U.S. bonds. The Justices ruled that upon becoming a state Texas had entered "a perpetual union" and therefore the state's "ordinance of secession... and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null." Secession was unconstitutional. |