And yet even that isn't the whole picture - wars and their reasons tend to be complicated things. While states' rights were guaranteed under the 10th Amendment, nothing in the Constitution truly legitimizes the Confederacy's "right" to secede. It wasn't so much that the South was concerned about the independence of states, it was also the fact that they refused to live under the compact of the Constitution which established a central government, i.e. the rule of the majority. They were outvoted and outnumbered and decided to pack up their toys and go home rather than work within the system.