Hey now, I didn't dismiss anything! I'm just trying to make sense of what you said. But if you're one of those types that thinks everything you write is self-evident because you're the one that wrote it, we can mix it up over that too!
You're the one that made a charge over Milligan, not me. Furthermore, for whatever reason the confederacy saw fit not to seat a supreme court, it was arguably a good enough reason to satisfy its members which would have been more autonomous than members of a Union, by definition.
So if the confederates were so onerously despotic to their own members and citizenry, how did they maintain cohesion?
Bingo.
What justification is there to ignore the constitution?
So if the confederates were so onerously despotic to their own members and citizenry, how did they maintain cohesion?
In part, fear. The confederacy was controlled by thousands of appointed office holders called habeas corpus commissioners. They had the power to order anyone jailed without trial for suspected acts of disloyalty, real or imagined. It's been claimed that there were upwards of 15,000 political prisoners jailed under Lincoln. Evidence shows that over 5,000 were jailed under Davis. On a per capita basis you were more likely to be jailed with out trial in the confederacy than in the United States.