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Or Ist Amendment to CSA Constitution.

It seems to me that it is very relevant for CSA development how CSA independence is achieved.

On one hand, you might have a Confederacy which seceded peacefully - the tensions were somehow resolved peacefully by negotiations in March to June 1861, and violence either did not break out at all or was resolved in a few weeks, without mobilizing large armies and fighting long campaigns, and without experience of long blockade in Confederacy and Britain.

Confederacy was founded by small agrarian oligarchy, who wanted to defend their position not only against Negro slaves they owned but also against masses of poor free whites and their democratic vote. If they achieve independence quickly and without requiring sacrifices from these poor free whites, they have kept their oligarchic position. If not...

Suppose that the Army of Virginia achieved decisive victories in 1862 or 1863, brings war to North and forces North to make a peace treaty and lift sea blockade. Or that they manage to grind Atlanta campaign to halt, McClellan wins in November 1864 on platform of negotiated peace and the peace negotiations are completed in March...June 1865.

The Confederate veterans go home. And now they will want their share of the government they fought to protect.

Churchill won Second World War. And lost the election even as war in Pacific continued - the Labour carried out practically a social revolution.

Assuming that in the few years after Civil War, the oligarchic elites of South are swept from power through getting voted out in respective state elections by the Civil War veterans. Davis is in office till 1867. Representatives are due for reelections exactly when? And how long will it take to change 2/3 of state legislatures, as necessary to approve Amendments of CSA Constitution?

The poor whites fought to preserve slavery, so they are not abolishing it straight away. But what would the constitution of victorious CSA look like by 1877?
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