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NEW-ORLEANS, Thursday, March 21. The State Convention, to-day, after a lively debate, ratified the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States by a vote of 100 Ayes to 7 Nays. Advertisement ...
The Constitution of the Confederate States is an agreement made between independent States. By its terms all the powers of Government are separated into classes as follows, viz.: 1. Such powers as ...
Contracts involving Confederate currency ... Supreme Court did hold that Congress had exceeded its power under the Constitution in refusing to repay the bonds in gold, but it concluded that ...
We don’t have to guess. Ardent defenders of slavery wrote just such a constitution for the breakaway Confederate States of America. Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States ...
How did the confederate constitution differ from that of the United States of America? How was Davis selected? And what happened to him after the war ended? Don is joined by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...