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The "Lame Duck" President James Buchanan believed that (A) southern states had a legal right to secede from the Union (B) the Constitution did not authorize him to force southern states to stay in the Union (C) the election of 1860 was a fraud (D) southern states had no other choice but to secede from the United States (E) the Southern states would come back if not pressed.
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