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The Constitution of the Confederate States was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America. It superseded the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States, the Confederate State's first constitution, in 1862. It remained in effect until the end of the American Civil War in 1865.
We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this ...
2 days ago · Adopted unanimously by the Congress of the Confederate States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, sitting in Convention at the capitol, the city of Montgomery, Alabama, on the Eleventh Day of March, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One.
Jan 1, 2009 · The constitution of the Confederate States of America included the rights of the First Amendment. It protected those rights from any laws passed by the Confederacy but not states.
The provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America was written when southern states first seceded from the Union. It is, in large part, exactly the same as the U.S. Constitution, with notable exceptions, some of which are excerpted here.
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
3 days ago · Confederate States of America | History, President, Map, Facts, & Flag | Britannica. Politics, Law & Government International Relations. Confederate States of America. historical nation, North America. Also known as: C.S.A., Confederacy. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The Constitution is preceded in the first column by the following: Joint resolution in relation to printing the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States ... adopted June 29, 1861; and, An act to submit to the popular vote an ordinance for the adoption or rejection of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States ... adopted June ...
cojntederate constitution. "We, the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sove- reign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal. government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility and secure the. blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity—invoking the favor.
Confederate States of America - Constitution for the Provisional Government. We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, invoking the favor of Almighty God, do hereby, in behalf of these States, ordain and establish this Constitution for the Provisional ...
