The colonists did not have a single representative in Parliament.
The Confederacy and the pro-slavery border states, with less than 30% of the voting population, had 28 out 66 seats in the Senate (42%) and 83 out of 237 House seats (35%).
Moreover, the Confederates and their border state sympathizers engineered the greatest intrusion of the federal government into the states in the history of the Union: namely the armies of federal marshals who raided Northern homes without warrants on suspicion of harboring "fugitives."
Like the famous case where 300 armed federal marshals tore up an entire Boston neighborhood searching for one elderly escaped slave who had gone missing almost 20 years before.
The Confederacy came into existence in 1860 because the racket was at an end: the 1860 census would have reapportioned the House more fairly, reducing the pro-slavery caucus to a permanent minority. The slavery lobby would no longer possess the balance of power in the Congress.
Instead of being grownups and accepting the Constitutional reality, the Confederacy armed itself and immediately began its strategy of illegally seizing the federal territory it desired.
Thank you for coming to the defense of the United States of America. As a Southerner whose ancestors fought for the Union (as many Southerners did), I resent the Slavocrat claims that Obama is merely Lincoln returned and that prior to Lincoln Jeffersonian loose construction was the "official" and "true" interpretation of the Constitution.
Ironically, one of the best books demolishing Jeffersonianism and the Confederacy is by Pat Buchanan: The Great Betrayal. Other than avoiding the issue of the Central Bank (because we all "know" who really controls Central Banks), Buchanan seems a thorough Hamiltonian. Of course, so is LaRouche (and LaRouche even wants the Bank).