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President Buchanan denounced secession but declared he had no power to force a state into submission.
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President James Buchanan called secession illegal in his December 1860 message to Congress but argued the Constitution did not give the president authority to unilaterally coerce a state back into the Union, so he refused to use force.
President James Buchanan called secession illegal in his December 1860 message to Congress but argued the Constitution did not give the president authority to unilaterally coerce a state back into the Union, so he refused to use force.
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