It’s interesting that the preamble to the CSA constitution states:
“We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.”m
Permanent federal government? What about the right to secede?
Rather poor form that, Wot?
Our Second Founding document used the term "Perpetual."
Of course the United Kingdom was also a government of "Permanent" or "Perpetual" nature, and so the very authority to which we appealed to break it was the laws of nature and of nature's God.
If the laws of nature and of nature's God can break allegiance owed to a thousand year old monarchy, then it is certainly sufficient to break all lesser enduring forms of governance.
“Permanent federal government” was wishful thinking. Everyone in 1861 knew that the Confederate government was going to need a lot of luck to survive.