(August 18, 2017 at 10:46 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If the war was about states' rights, why didn't the rebels first overthrow their own government for abrogating those rights in these clauses?
Also why was the confederate constitution far more restrictive on states' rights than the original one. As well as the permanent slavery thing, there were quite a few taxes that the states would have to collect on behalf of the confederacy, and the confederacy had full control over regulating all sea and riverine transport. At the time these were all responsibilities of individual states in the Union
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