For example, the opposing side would argue that the issue of secession was never mentioned in the Constitution, which allowed the South to secede due to Amendment 10 (The Constitution). Amendment 10 states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.... Nonetheless, "New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union;" (Article IV Section 3 of the Constitution). ... Eventually, slavery was abolished in the United States with the passing of the Amendment ...

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