- Joined
- Jan 12, 2016
- Location
- South Carolina
They should have done so before their state declared secession.
South Carolina first declared they where out of the union.. then they said they wanted to talk. This made what they where doing an unilateral action... done outside the legal political system.
If they had told their representatives to write a bill for congress,(without declaring that they where out... just that they wanted out) then it would have been done with in the political system.
The issue here is that they believed a state had the right to secede without asking permission from any other state. But they could still have passed their ordinance of secession and then taken it to present to Congress rather than to the President. It would be a pretty powerful statement that South Carolina wanted out, and had SC done that and kept their tempers in check when Anderson moved to Fort Sumter, things might have gone very differently. I'd be willing to bet that most of the members of Congress would have been more than willing to listen and discuss the issue at that point in time.