Given the independence nature of the various state Governors in the Confederate States in 1861, I would say that IF the Confederacy had been able to develope in peace and without the pressure of having an aggressor attack them, they would have developed into a more republic system of Government that what the necessity of conducting a war for the common self defence ultimately allowed.

And even the United States abandoned the Republic form of Government under the same necessity of conducting that war. Had Lincoln not been the authoritian he was, he would have lost that war. But in doing that he destroyed the United States as it existed prior to his election. By shutting down newspapers that expressed a decenting view of his policy and arrest even Congressman and persons running for political office who opposed his views The United States certainly was no republic, nor is it even a democracy.

The United States ceased to exist as a Constitutional Government in 1861 and was reformed in the image of Lincolns ideal. That the people exist to serve the unlimited Government and not the a limited Government existing to serve the people. We only have to look at todays headlines to see how that worked out for us.

No we will never go back to a Constitutional Government without another revolution. Once a dog breaks into the Henhouse and starts eating the eggs, it just becomes and eggsucking dog, and you can't break it of the habit.