Non-partisan (constitutionalist) President Davis exercises his first veto, by sending the International Slave Trade Act back to the non-partisan First Confederate Congress. The act would have allowed the sale of African slaves captured from the SS Express—a slave ship.
[restored 3/12/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Provisional Confederate Constitution, Article I, Section 7 [Clause 1]
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csapro.asp
References:
Donald W. Livingston, “The Secession Tradition in America,” Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 20.
Jefferson Davis’ Veto « Civil War Emancipation.mht
cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/jefferson-davis-veto/
Livingston – A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy
mises.org/library/moral-accounting-union-and-confederacy
Current U.s. National Debt:
