The secessionists claimed that according to the Constitution every state had the right to leave the Union. Lincoln claimed that they did not have that right. He opposed secession for these reasons:
1. Physically the states cannot separate.
2. Secession is unlawful.
3. A government that allows secession will disintegrate into anarchy.
4. That Americans are not enemies, but friends.
5. Secession would destroy the world's only existing democracy, and prove for all time, to future Americans and to the world, that a government of the people cannot survive.
Lincoln may have thought the fifth point was the most important. If you traveled the earth in 1860, and visited every continent and every nation, you would have found many examples of monarchies, dictatorships, and other examples of authoritarian rule. But in the all the world, you would have found only one major democracy: The United States of America. Democracy had been attempted in one other nation in the eighteenth century - France. Unfortunately, that experiment in self-government deteriorated rapidly, as the citizens resorted more to the guillotine than to the ballot box. From the ashes of that experiment in self-government, rose a dictator who, after seizing control in France, attempted to conquer the continent of Europe.
Answer:
I kinda need to read the writing first but number 2 is H if you provide the passage ill help more
Explanation:
<span>Economically, communism prevents consumer sovereignty and free market competition, as the government has control of most or all of the resources in a country.
</span><span>Socially, communism attempts to create equality of outcome by redistributing wealth, and in turn, will take away someone’s freedom to make as much or as little money as they want.
There are MANY ways the people in</span> Soviet Russia were stripped of their freedom by Communism.
