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Throw a bone to the South, Non - they had a profitable, effective postal system.

Not only that but they had only one Postmaster General througout their existence - one of only two cabinet offices that did not go through secretary after secretary.

But lets look at the mercantilist agenda of the American system - internal improvements, railroad subsidies, centralized banking, the greenback dollar, corporate welfare, protectionism, special interest groups.

Stainless, read the confederate constitution. It existed to protect the most influential special interest group in the south - the plantation agriculture industry. Nothing was allowed to interfere with their markets or promote industry or impose a cost on them that was not required to maintain their business and lifestyle.

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That's not why it "existed", but I will counter your claims with the following about the Confederate Constitution:

1. It explicitly outlawed protection tariffs
2. It explicitly outlawed internal improvements
3. It accounts for uniform taxation
4. 2/3 majority vote on all congressional approriations
5. Allowed impeachment of federal officials by state legistlatures + House of Representatives

Indicative of the differences during the long battle philosophical battle of Jeffersonian soveriegn rule and states' rights vs. Hamiltonian centralized power.