State Rights

     State rights were a highly important factor in the civil war.  The primary reason of this is that this is the reason that many of the southern states succeeded from the union.  They believed that the federal government had too much power over states and that the states should have more power than the federal government.  This is why a confederacy was chosen for the succeeding states.
     In a confederacy the states have the majority of the power.  In the past, however this form of government has never succeeded.  It is not an effective way to run a country.  The states, when not given direction, all act on separate terms and have very different laws, causing chaos and confusion.  This he one of the reason many people did not want the south to succeed.