[quote=So Boerd]
Tomato, tomatoe. You are provoking a confrontation with the USA all in the name of cotton easily attainable from other sources, threatening far more significant grain trade with the US and finished goods trade with the Northern States. To add on top, I saw no act of Parliament recognizing the CSA.
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It will be interesting to see how public opinion takes it. That said, I assumed that any actual decisions posted officially by the queen were ratified by parliament. Since obviously she does not have that sort of power on her own.