I don't care if the called themselves the United Pinheads of States Rights, the effect was the same.
They attempted to dissolve the indissoluble. Even your hero Lee, who this thread was started to honor, said that secession was treason. That the Union was indissoluble.
The Confederacy was a bunch of squabbling children. South Carolina and Georgia BOTH threatened to secede FROM THE CONFEDERACY!
The Confederaxy would have dissolved into a cottection of Balkin-like states eventually. The United States of America was threatened, no different than if the states were attacked today by Mexico. There were many loyal Americans in the south who did NOT want to secede.
I'll source it for you. Not that you'll look.
J.L.M Curry, "Civil History of the Government of the Confederate States, with some Personal Reminiscences", p42,44
I'll trust primary source material over your slanted opinion of American history.
"The Confederaxy would have dissolved into a cottection of Balkin-like states eventually. The United States of America was threatened...."
Jersey, Jersey, Jersey......we'll never know, will we?
It is equally plausible that the North, understanding their folly and the limitations of federal power written into the constitution would have come around to the correct (constitutional) way of thinking and later reaffirmed the 10th amendment and reconciled with the South without war.
As it was, they revoked the 10th amendment and government hasn't stopped growing since, nor will the federal government stop growing until it is forced to do so, probably under another threat of secession or equally dramatic event.