Was the nation an assemblage of republics or an indivisible nation of people living in states before the Civil

Answer 1

What nation?
what civil?

Assuming you mean the USA and the civil war, the US was no longer an assemblage of republics. The Constitutional Convention put an end to the Us being a confederacy and gave us a federalist system.

Answer 2

In a manner of speaking you might say both.

Certainly the Constitution defined a general government as created by the States. That federal government reigned supreme within the powers delegated to it. Outside of those powers it didn’t exist. The States each had a Constitution prior to the Constitution and, within the 1783 Treaty of Peace (Article One) they were individually named and declared as Free, Independent, and Sovereign. No where will you find any agreement in which the States ceded this position. They only allowed some of that to be loaned to the federal government they created in the Constitution. They maintained their power of State nullification of federal acts and the power to secede (re: the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions primarily written by Jefferson and Madison).

In other words, it was an assemblage of Republic States that acted together as a nation for specific functions (all defined within the Constitution) but they were not indivisible. This has never changed legally or Constitutionally. Only through conquest did this change, not legal but through force of arms. For this refer to the case of Texas v. White 1869.

This American War of the 1860s changed the True Intent of the Founders Constitution forever.

Answer 3

This the primary cause of the Civil War---the arguement over States rights vs Federal Control..

The southern states wanted the individual states to retain most of the rights while give the Feds only what it needed to provide for a common protection of the states.

The outcome of the civil war decided once and for all that the federal government has priority.

Answer 4

We were a nation, a collection of states under a central government. The question before the ACW was who had the over-ridding power, state or federal government. Certain states believed they did, and tried to break from the union. The outcome of the ACW determined the answer, federal government had overall power. So I guess we were a *divisible* nation of people living in states before the ACW.

Answer 5

There is a process before statehood. Terratory first, then possible admission to statehood.

The states before the Civil War were a republic. Texas was a republic before it requested statehood to get federal aid in its struggle with Mexico.