Complete nonsense.
Nope. Unvarnished truth.
Do we now? It's easy to look back over 150 years and say it was dying. But in 1861 you would be hard pressed to find many in the South who would agree with that. But that doesn't change the fact that the actions you say that they were pursuing were completely forbidden by the constitution. Yes we do. It was dying at the time. It had steadily been dying throughout the West in the 19th century. There were those in the Southern States who did see it in 1861. The rates of slave ownership were already declining in the Upper South and the percentage of the Black population who were freedmen was increasing. Look it up - do not attempt to demand a link you've used up all your alloted questions. There is no legal authority which ever ruled that they could not abolish slavery via the treaty making power so this is a false claim on your part.
Again, complete nonsense.
Again unvarnished truth.
What clause of the constitution requires any of those cabinet posts? Oh wait, I forget. Constitutional requirements were of no interest to Davis and his people
Where did I say a clause of the constitution did?
The Founding Fathers were not operating under a document that required a judiciary. The Confederates were.
The Confederates were operating under a national emergency that did not permit them time to appoint and confirm judges yet. Had Lincoln not started the war they doubtless would have gotten around to appointing the judiciary.
Lincoln faced "exigencies of war" just like Davis did. Would you cut him the same slack?
Total nonsense. Lincoln inherited an established government, an established judiciary which he ignored whenever it suited him, an established treasury, an established navy etc etc Despite that he trampled on constitutional rights of citizens to a vastly greater extent than Davis did in the Confederacy.
I challenge you to find one southern leader who said before the war that slavery was dying. The fact is that both the number of slaves and the price of slaves was increasing. Hardly signs of a dying institution.
Or, to put FLT-bird's argument in simpler terms: