The 42 delegates, at the Confederate Constitutional Convention, unanimously propose the Constitution for the Confederate States to the seven seceded States for ratification. The convention spent most of its time addressing what it felt were the shortcomings of the Constitution for the United States:
- references to the “general welfare” in the Preamble and Article I, Section 8 [Clause 1] are eliminated;
- a line-item veto for the President is clarified (Article I, Section 7 [Clause 2]);
- the Post Office must not be subsidized by taxes but operate on its own revenues (Article I, Section 8 [Clause 7];
- federal subsidies to facilitate commerce are prohibited (Article I, Section 8 [Clause 3]);
- (protective) tariffs designed to benefit domestic industries are prohibited (Article I, Section 8 [Clause 1]);
- unrelated riders to appropriations legislation are prohibited (Article I, Section 9 [Clause 20]).
[restored 3/13/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous-declaration-of-independence
References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The Great Centralizer: Abraham Lincoln and the War of Federal Aggression,” Cato Journal, 3 (Fall 1998): 259.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 164.
CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp
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