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War of Northern Aggression? You just jumped the shark.

Nah. Check out the Ordinance of Secession:

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."

We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.

Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

Ever read that in school? I will bet you did not, especially if you were cursed with public education.

The Ordinance of Secession passed by South Carolina in 1860 presents an interpretation of the Constitution long since lost today. The united States was a fairly loose association of states with a weak central government whose purpose was to mostly serve as a representative in dealing with foreign affairs.

The War of Northern Aggression was really a question over grammar: is it the United States is, or the United States are? Appomattox settled the question. It is the United States is. If you want to trace the monstrous growth of the federal government’s power and intrusion in everyday life, look no further than the immediate years before and after the war. It all began when the federal government defeated states’ rights by the cannon and sword.