[Dawgsquat]

If you study all three speechs, it's clear that the reasons for secession were very much States Rights issues (that includes the hot button, emotional issue of slavery).

This war resulted in the death of the Tenth Ammendment of the Bill of Rights.

Amendment XThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

[Aric2000]

The civil war destroyed the 10th amendment alright, and it also destroyed the true intent of this constitutional republic as well. Lincoln as far as I have ascertained was a traitor to that document. Whereas the Confederacy had the right to do what they did.

Sad, sad times those were, saw the destruction of the south, and of the constitution as our founding fathers wrote it.

[Austin Willard Wright]

State's rights was not the central philosophical (other than slavery) justification for secession. As the address indicates, Davis relied on a compact theory to justify secession. States rights was too subversive, hence the CSA Constitution did not provide for the right of secession!

In fact, Davis and his cohorts had all fought the states rights of Northern states during the 1850s to enact personal liberty laws on the grounds that such laws wrongly trampled on Federal authority!

[lentulusgracchus]

This war resulted in the death of the Tenth Ammendment of the Bill of Rights.

Yeah, how did that XII-1/2th Amendment read? "Two million bayonets can't be wrong: I can amend the Constitution"?