"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan believed that
A) southern states had a legal right to secede from the Union.
B) his duty was to protect federal installations from assault.
C) the election of 1860 was a fraud.
D) southern states had no choice but to secede from the Union.
E) southern states could not secede under the Constitution.
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