[Michael.SF.]

The Confederates were upset that they were not given their own special privilege of vetoing any constitutionally-passed legislation they didn't like.

So in other words the Confederates felt that the government was no longer responsive to their needs as a people?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

So in other words the Confederates felt that the government was no longer responsive to their needs as a people?

I'm not sure that the need to get one's way in every matter is a legitimate need that a government must fulfill. Republican government presupposes a degree of political maturity and restraint which the Confederates lacked in 1860-61.

[wideawake]

So in other words the Confederates felt that the government was no longer responsive to their needs as a people?

The South "felt the US was no longer responsive to their needs as a people"?

Is this an episode of Oprah?

The Constitution is about law, not feelings.

The US guaranteed the rights of its Southern citizens to the fullest extent of the law.