American History

Besides, the strongest argument of the day was that the conquest of Texas AND the purchase of Louisiana, Arkansas, & Missouri, AND the liberation of all Confederate points east of there were the result of the shared blood and treasure of the United States. You can't legally just let go of that which you spent your blood and treasury in acquiring.

If you and I as partners bought a property together and invested money in turning it into a store together and then agreed that I would manage the store on a daily basis, that doesn't put me in a position to wake up and decide one morning that I am the sole owner and deprive you of your investment and right to the share in the profits cause I'm the one with the front door key.

The nation-state of the US was and is a covenent among the people of the states that has a term of all posterity. It may yet break apart one day, but all parties involve until that day are fully entitled to keep it from doing so.