What makes a people a people?

[LincolnToddFan]

Jefferson Davis-especially toward the end of the war-faced opposition and challenges to his authority from various Confederate states, particularly North Carolina. They resented the draft for one thing and used states rights as a justification to oppose it.

Even if the South had been successful in it's bid for independence, I am not sure how the CSA could have continued it's existence as a separate country with each state continually asserting it's sovereignty whenever it disagreed with the central government.

There was no explicit provision for secession in the new Confederate constitution, so what would have been the recourse for an individual state that no longer saw it's interests being served within the Confederacy?