Progressive dribble even here. The proclamation freed not one single slave. It also protected slavery in all southern areas under Federal control. The base reason for the War of Northern Aggression was/is the same reason that is tearing this country apart. Plutocrats financially raping the people. Then it was the southern working class. Today it is the assault on all productive people who work and struggle to survive in the face of federal assault on the Constitution while earning a living. Only fools believe it cannot happen again.

Marco Rubio does not meet Constitutional muster as a presidential candidate any more than the current one. If you do not believe in the Constitution, as written with its legal amendments, then you cannot justify the continued existence of the United States. No Constitution means no lawful govt.

If you believe in the Constitution as the ultimate law of the land, you cannot deny a state's right to secede. The Founders absolutely understood this principal as a protection against an abusive central government. The secession principal was utilized several times, during the 1st 60 years of our Republic to prevent what has become common place today. Don't fall for the line of pseudo-conservatives when they call secession a fantasy. This is one Texan who believes that the sovereign status of his state trumps the federal govt.