Could the dissolution of the union have been avoided?

Question

Could the dissolution of the union have been avoided?

Answer 1

Please provide more detail to your question.  I really don't know which union you are referring to.

Answer 2

jared_ed4;

  the right of secession was once seen as a way to keep the government honest. Thomas Jefferson was a staunch supporter of the idea. He also believed that if the government became repressive and unresponsive to the people then it should be sacked and replaced.

I don't see how the union could have been saved in 1860. The sourthern states were well within their rights to leave the union. The union states were in no way ready to go to war to prevent this move. Only the government wanted to go to war. After the civil war the right of secession was abolished.  

Answer 3

If you are thinking of the US Civil war, the Union cannot be dissolved.  Once a state joins, it seeds powers of an independent state, and becomes part of something greater.  The parts have rights, but ultimate power lies in the Federal system.  That seeding of power came out of the failure of the articles of confederation, our first national government.

Before the South failed to appreciate the union, New England tossed around the idea of leaving during the War of 1812, but decided against it.