Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
If I remember correctly, the confederate constitution was basically a copy of the US constitution, with a proviso added that said slaves were allowed. Other articles that had been widely criticized as being detrimental to states rights were left intact.
Considering the original was mostly the plan of Virginians, and that the federal government was dominated by southerners right up till 1860 when the Republicans won, why would they change it? The southerners of 1860 should be criticized for bailing out as soon as they no longer dominated the national debate, but not for taking with them what they had created to begin with.