[GOPcapitalist]

So if the Alabama State Supreme Court had ruled that conscription was unconstitutional and refused to allow the state to provide troops to the Davis regime then that would have been OK?

IIRC the Texas supreme court ruled very similarly to that on the conscription issue. They did not rule it unconstitutional all together, but did say that conscription could not take troops out of their state and frontier guards. But such is the nature of state sovereignty, and in case you have forgotten the CSA viewed their union as a CONFEDERATION of sovereign and independent states that gave power to the federal government by their own designation, not the other way around.

[Non-Sequitur]

But you didn't answer the question. Say 7 of 11 confederate states had ruled that conscription was illegal. Given the right combination of states then most of the Army of Northern Virginia could have pulled up stakes and gone home. So if the states supreme courts said "Send our people home" and the Davis regime said "No" then what power did they have to make the Davis regime abide by their decisions?

[Non-Sequitur]

IIRC the Texas supreme court ruled very similarly to that on the conscription issue.

It wasn't the state supreme court which interfered with conscription. They had, in fact, upheld the constitutionality of conscription. It was Governor Murrah who objected to allowing Texas troops be used outside of the state. After 1863 the supply of Texas troops dried up considerably. Civil War History

[stand watie]

correct.

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