The Constitution Of The Confederate States

The U.S Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are very different in their objectives and personal appeal. Since it was established the U.S. Constitution has been the foundation for the U.S. Government. The U.S. Constitution has been designated the supreme law of the country. The Declaration

There are many similarities between the U.S. Constitution and Iowa’s Constitutions. One being that they both have a preamble. While the U.S. constitution have a very short preamble that

Tensions between the North and South had grown steadily since the anti slavery movement in 1830. Several compromises between the North and South regarding slavery had been passed such as the Nebraska-Kansas and the Missouri act; but this did little to relieve the strain. The election of President Lincoln in 1861 proved to be the boiling point for the South, and secession followed. This eventually sparked the civil war; which was viewed differently by the North and the South. The Northern goal was to keep the Union intact while the Southern goal was to separate from the Union. Southern leaders gave convincing arguments to justify secession. Exploring documents from South Carolina’s secession ordinance and a speech from the Georgia

The romanticized version of the Civil War creates a picture of the North versus the South with the North imposing on the South. However, after reading “The Making of a Confederate” by William L. Barney, one can see that subdivisions existed before the war was declared. The documents analyzed by Barney primarily focus on the experiences of Walter Lenoir, a southern confederate and a member of the planter elite. His experiences tell a vivid story of a passionate and strongly opinioned participant of the Civil War as well as demonstrate a noticeably different view involving his reasoning when choosing a side. Between analyzing this fantastic piece of literature and other resourceful documents from “Voices of Freedom” by Eric Foner, one

With the above synopsis of the three important documents, I can now really compare them all. The Declaration is a statement to declare freedom and separate from Great Britain, listing all the horrible things the king did for the colonies’ reason to become independent, while the U.S. Constitution was written after, to be more specific to the government and how that should be run. The Declaration was more of a broad, almost philosphical view of what the US should be. The Constitution lays out the new government stating there will be a Congress, President, and a Supreme Court. It further details the powers of each branch and how each should be run. The Constitution was written by respresentatives of all the states; however the Declaration was written by Jefferson and revised by the delegates of the 13 colonies. The letter Jefferson wrote to the Danburry Baptists sparked a debate about the separation between church and state and what that really means. There have been many interpretations of that over the

The Alabama Constitution of 1865 lacks a preamble full of grand language about how Congress passed an enabling act or how the state was succeeding from the Union. The primary justification for the establishment of the 1865 Constitution came from President Andrew Johnson who appointed Lewis Parsons to be the Provisional Governor of Alabama. In the Presidential Proclamation appointing Parsons as Governor, President Johnson tasked him with “convening a convention composed of delegates to be chosen by that portion of the people of said State who are loyal to the United States, and no others, for the purpose of altering and amending the Constitution thereof.” While many Northern Congressmen wanted to harsher punishments for the Southern states, President Johnson wanted to clean up the mess and get it behind him. Governor Parsons made a proclamation the same day he was appointed the Provisional Governorship where he urged his fellow Alabamians to get on the life boat of the Union.

There is no question that the disagreements in the Civil War between Northern and Southern states were over the economy as well as state rights. Yet, the confederate flag was a valiant symbol of slavery and the mistreatment of African American people. “The Confederacy was based on the defense of slavery, and it benefited from the usually coerced, but sometimes willing, labor of black people” (Chapter 11 pg.253). For example in the South, slavery was a major reason for why the Southern states needed to win. By losing, it meant slavery would be abolished in both Southern and Northern states. “Lincoln’s announcement gave the Confederate states one hundred days to return to the Union” (Chapter 11 pg.240). Prime example of this was when the Southern

4) Based upon your knowledge of the Civil War and reading of the Reconstruction Amendments (Document 7), in what specific ways were the questions and crises of liberty and unequal power relationships contained in these various documents resolved or exacerbated by the 1870s?

It is quite hard to answer this question, because the confederates have more than one flag. There exists the first confederate flag which is blue with one white star. Next there are two versions of the first confederate national flag. Both with red and white stripes and blue square on top left corner, one with seven stars forming a circle, the other with thirteen stars forming a circle. Then there is the confederate battle flag, which is the one most people have seen, it exhibits a red background with a blue X as well as thirteen stars to compose it. This flag was first brought into battle in December 1861. The war between the Confederate and the Union was fought because the south had wanted to succeed from the north to become its own country.

The feeling of freedom and opportunity is something that workers, farmers, and slaves dreamed of their whole lives. The Constitution of the United States of America is a document that brought together all of the nation’s governments under one branch in 1788 and was intended to create freedom and equality for everyone. However, it did not quite work out that way. The Founding Fathers were the people who wrote the preamble. The Preamble to the United States Constitution is the introduction to the Constitution, and it is hypocritical because it excluded a number of people, such as farmers, enslaved African Americans and workers when it was formed.

Immediately after confirmation of the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, the legislature of South Carolina convened. In a unanimous vote on December 20, 1860, the state seceded from the Union. During the next two months ordinances of secession were adopted by the states of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

Both Federalism and Confederate Governments are multilateral systems of the Government, a Federal system assigns more power to the Central Government. The confederate system reserves most of the power for the states. In a Confederation the central government has no power to tax people or enforce laws.

On March 21, 1861, Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, delivered the truth as he saw it in his famously controversial “Cornerstone” speech to educate and prepare the people of the Confederacy for the war he once fought hard to avoid. Even though there is no “official” version of the speech, it was reproduced by many newspaper reporters who were present, and published in several newspapers. In his speech, Stephens analyzed what he believed to be the reasons for the revolution and the crucial differences between the ideologies and culture expressed in the constitutions of the Confederacy and the United States; focusing greatly on the disagreement over the enslavement of African Americans. Stephens speech gives great insight into the inner thoughts and beliefs of the Confederacy. The title, “Cornerstone Speech”, comes from the memorable line: “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.”(Stephens, par. 10). Due to the speech being given a few weeks after Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, and Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida all seceding, it is commonly recognized as a major event that led to the fires shot at the United States Army at Fort Sumter, starting the civil war. However, it

Despite this, it is true that a United States Constitution was necessary. This was because ““the Constitution of the United States, was the equality of rights between the States. This was essential; it was necessary; it was a step which had to be taken first, before any progress could be made.” 272 Furthermore, the Massachusetts Constitution was created in 1780 and despite having some similarities in the constitutions, the Massachusetts Constitution starts by stating the rights of the people of the State. For example, a clause stated that “all men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties….” And also that “every individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.” Although this did not stop slavery from happening, at least it was trying to treat slaves like they were equal to everyone else. In the first edition of the Constitution, there were hardly any rights written in for any human, not just slaves. Eventually, the bill of rights was added in but this was long after the first Constitution was

They are both a constitution. That is they are a set of laws/rules laid down for both the people and the intuition to abide by whether written or unwritten, codified or not codified.