On March 11, 1861, delegates from the newly formed Confederate States of America agreed on their own constitution. Here is a look at this little-known third constitution that controlled the lives ...

Found in a wagon as the war ended in April 1865, the original Confederate Constitution adopted on March 11, 1861, has been housed for decades in the University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book and ...

At the start of 1861, several Southern states seceded to form their own union under the Constitution of the Confederate States. The Confederate Constitution was just a modified version of the ...

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 leaders of the Confederacy wrote God into their new constitution and proclaimed a ... gave a farewell speech to his fellow senators in 1861 before he became president of the Confederacy.

(John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP, File) Found in a wagon as the war ended in April 1865, the original Confederate Constitution adopted on March 11, 1861, has been housed for decades in the ...

Found in a wagon as the war ended in April 1865, the original Confederate Constitution adopted on March 11, 1861, has been housed for decades in the University of Georgia’s Hargrett Rare Book ...

I understood going in that Radan would argue that "on the basis of American constitutional law in 1860–1861, the unilateral secessions of the Confederate states were lawful," on the grounds that ...

Per Article I, Section 5 of the United States Constitution ... military position in the Confederacy. Three members of the House were expelled in 1861 for their disloyalty to the Union ...

Scarcely anything was more central to the people who framed our Constitution than the separation of powers. John Adams, in the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, wrote that it was designed “to ...