Question

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Read this excerpt from Davis’ Inaugural Address. Which two statements support Davis’s claim that the southern states had the right to secede?

The declared purpose of the compact of Union from which we have withdrawn was "to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity;" and when, in the judgment of the sovereign States now composing this Confederacy, it had been perverted from the purposes for which it was ordained, and had ceased to answer the ends for which it was established, a peaceful appeal to the ballot-box declared that so far as they were concerned, the government created by that compact should cease to exist. In this they merely asserted a right which the Declaration of Independence of 1776 had defined to be inalienable ... The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognize in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of government...

The purpose of the laws of the Union had been to ensure justice, peace, protection, and well-being of the people.
The government of the Union had changed from what it was intended to be.
The vote Southerners had taken at the ballot-box to secede was just as important as the laws of the Union.
The right on which the states acted had been given in the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 1

- The government of the Union had changed from what it was intended to be.
- The right on which the states acted had been given in the Declaration of Independence.