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In February of 1861, just two months before the official start of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis delivered his inaugural address to the Confederacy as its new leader. Seven Southern states had already seceded, or broken away, from the United States and formed the Confederacy. Davis argued that the North oppressed the South through its disapproval of slavery, a practice vital to its economy and culture. He even compared the Confederacy's fight to defend its way of life as a revolutionary act, similar to how the colonies rebelled against the control of Great Britain back in the Revolutionary War. He described how it is 'the right of the people to alter or abolish' (get rid of) the government at will 'whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.' In other words, Davis justified the South's decision to secede by arguing that the Constitution allows oppressed citizens to rise up against the government.
Jefferson Davis believed the union of the United States was formed by loose bonds that could be broken if necessary. In his opinion, the country's power rested in the individual states, and not in a strong central government. Davis believed that because the North was restricting the rights of the Southern states, secession was 'a necessity, not a choice.' In his address, he did not embrace the North's demands for a reunion of states, which he described as 'neither practicable nor desirable.' Davis helped set up a new government in the Confederacy, with the goal of making it similar to the United States. For example, the Confederacy had an executive branch modeled on the U.S.'s, which was in charge of a postal service, making foreign trades, and overseeing the military. The constitutions of each government were similar as well, with a key difference that the Constitution of the Confederacy guaranteed the right to have it's nation against tyranny.