Nonpartisan (constitutionalist) President Davis, vetoes the International Slave trade Act (his first) that would have allowed the Navy of the Confederate States to sell slaves that it captures on the high seas.
[restored 1/25/2025]
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
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