The Constitution of the Confederate States of America Explained: A Clause-By-Clause Study of the South's Magna Carta de Seabrook, Lochlainn

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, EXPLAINED A Clause-by-Clause Study of the South's Magna CartaBy Lochlainn Seabrook 162 pages. Patterned on the Constitution of the United States of America, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was written during February and March 1861 by a committee of twelve Southern political leaders, whose states had recently seceded from the Union. A revolutionary document then as now, its writers and supporters hoped the CS Constitution would continue the conservative values of America's first and purest constitution, the Articles of Confederation, which had been penned expressly for the new United States of America-officially known as "the Confederacy" from 1781 to 1789 and unofficially as "the Confederate States of America" into the early 1800s. Thus, naturally the Southern Founding Fathers gave their new country the same name in March 1861.Though the CS Constitution has long been unfairly relegated to the historical scrap heap by… Leer más

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