[Non-Sequitur]

I might also add the Confederate constitution banned the importation of slaves.

A common misconception. The confederate constitution actually protected slave imports, albeit only from the slave-owning parts of the United States.

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The Civil? War proved that might makes right in the eyes of the world, that the people in the North were willing to follow a president who ignored their constitutional rights, and that a bunch of farmers in 1776 wouldn't have won without help from outside powers willing to supply arms and training.

The Southern armies might have won a guerilla war, but marching en masse to battlefields against an opponent with three times your population is a sure way to lose.