Elected officials and judges have the title The Honorable.. If the district attorney you are addressing was elected in a general election... the indeed he or she would be The Honorable. In conversation you may address the DA as Mister District Attorney or call him Mister - followed by his last name.
If I understand your question, the leaders of the confederacy  believed states had the right to secede from the Union. The  original Constitution made the States supreme in â¦ many matters.
In the Southern states, however, slavery was the basis of the power of the patriot leaders. Men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were major slave owners, and they made sure that the new government guaranteed their right to own and exploit other human beings.