... vulnerable to northern oppression; their right to withdraw from the governing pact remained a fundamental precept of the Declaration of Independence" (24). Representatives from each state convened on February 1860, to create the Confederate States of America. Although this document was roughly based on the Constitution, it assigned limits on the government's power to impose tariffs and restrictions on slavery. The southerners felt that they needed to create a new constitution because "the preamble to the Constitution . . . does not propose to make the old ... Union more perfect, but to ...

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