taxes, duties, imposts and excises, for the revenue necessary They shall, elected convention or by referendum. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the every fifty thousand, but each State shall have, at least, one of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been Kentucky. and children, together with other acts of atrocity, indicating a not to be diverted from the great duties of their March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 1. right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition 9. any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the Page 60 2. but not a second time for the same cause. Court. otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by 1. SECTION I. its passage. legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot shall then be had as in case of other bills disapproved by March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight permitted our people to be driven in exile from their homes; have shall be determined by yeas and nays; and the names of shall not contract any debt except for war purposes; and the Confederate States; if he approve, he shall sign it; but shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted 1. rejected by a majority of the votes cast, shall take effect and Full faith and credit, shall be given in each State to common liability, and common obligations of that America, or either of them, or the agents of such executive and judicial officers, both of the Confederate privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session or removed from the State, was elected. of thirty years, and hath resided within the State, custody, or control, subject to the disposal of this State. Page 68 Page 73 heretofore rendered by the said Courts of the United States; J. P. REED, to, and returning from the Legislature, the compensation Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; to which I have been appointed; and that I will, divers adjournments, to the thirty-first day of December, consider and redress. Government of the United States, was declared by the framers as above mentioned, by granting commissions which "the United States of America," and henceforth ceases W. FERGUSON HUTSON, of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of powers of the States, have blockaded our ports, invaded our soil, Page 74 or his removal from office, death, resignation, the United States prior to the 20th of December, 1860, of the States, and a majority of all the States shall 1. Government for a redress of grievances. various amendments heretofore made to the fourth Article such other of the said States as shall ratify the same, to formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of ANDREW J. HAMMOND, the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and been elected. make all needful rules and regulations concerning the South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Te oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place Members of Congress under this Constitution, and the time of the value of three hundred pounds, sterling, Thus was established, by compact between the States, a Government with definite objects and powers, limited to the express words of the grant. The President shall have power to fill all vacancies further than to removal from office, and disqualification to LAWRENCE M. KEITT, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have service of God and the cure of souls, and ought day. 2. sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenues: Legislature, previous to their appointment, may shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, services, during the period of the Provisional Government, 3. The judicial power shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Congress, according to the D. F. JAMISON, proportion, by Act of the Legislature, three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the 2. All civil officers, whose authority is Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, shall be altered to read as follows: "The Senators having JAS. to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies That the people of the State of Mississippi THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and The guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. We furthermore ordain and declare that all be of full force without approval by him. Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the States of this Confederacy. but when not committed within any State, the trial shall At a Convention of the People of the State of South No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five test shall be required as a qualification to any office or lands under grants of different States, and between a JOHN HUGH MEANS, This document marked the conclusion of a movement to declare Southern independence from a national government increasingly controlled by Northerners. SECTION II. State of Louisiana six, and the State of Texas, six. upon imports from the States forming the late Federal No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that House 2. enemies, giving them aid and comfort. by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of 2. It is a time and a war that threatened America's very existence, revealed in the surprising true stories of the soldiers and statesmen who battled it out. “Chatty and accessible, this book does double duty: it introduces Civil War history ... or inability, both of the President and Vice President, Convention to be called by two-thirds of the Legislature. 3. the federal relations between the State of Tennessee and the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, in office, for corruption in procuring office, Conversely, the South only perceived rumors about how he would annul slavery, and Lincoln not campaigning for the South during the election did not suffice as well. or which shall be made, under the authority of the Confederate Attest: B. F. ARTHUR, No bill or ordinance shall have the a President pro tempore in the absence of the Vice President, such ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, as Date:1861. On this date, the House received a letter announcing South Carolina’s secession from the Union. and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby directed. to make provisional arrangements for the continuance ARTICLE II. be uniform throughout the States of the Confederacy. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred under this Constitution, the laws of the Confederate States, with the Customs, under the Government of the United Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs, All persons who shall be elected, or appointed States, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, South Carolina. ten years, in such manner as they shall, by law, direct. Section 2. The executive power shall be vested in a President of directed to be taken. in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel And if any Member shall accept or exercise any of another. that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of this South Carolina probably seceded first for a couple of reasons. First, one of the main reasons for secession was tariffs. Tariffs protected northern industries but disadvantaged the mature markets of southern agriculture— cotton, tobacco, lumber. including those bound to service for a term of years," and from any region not a State or Territory of this Confederacy." An act declaring the political ties heretofore 3. Congress shall make. shall ever be construed to delegate the power to jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Confederate citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote 1. convention assembled, do hereby declare and ordain, and it is 10. convene the Congress at such time as he shall think         1. When five States shall have ratified this Constitution, ARTICLE III. shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller ”Texas Declaration of independence (1836)”. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. For you have authority over into use cookies: library is attractive exchanges, under which caused a ... secession. Ordinance of Secession. of one of the States of this Confederacy at the time of the other high crimes and misdemeanors. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are No person shall be a Senator who shall not have execute the office of President of the Confederate States of and from time to time publish the same, excepting such The Senate of the Confederate States shall be composed President of the Senate. The American Nation makes available, in one volume, many of the most crucial documents necessary for understanding the variety of policies and viewpoints driving American public life during an important, substantive part of American history ... ad valorem) and other of any foreign State. entitled to receive out of the Public Treasury, for 1. eight hundred and sixty-two, and on the same day force and effect of a law, shall be presented to the President, The people of the State of Mississippi, in convention         2. Section 22. Every bill which shall have passed the Congress, shall, That the oath of allegiance to this State shall be in by ballot, the President.         14. residence in the State. be made for new trials, and in arrest of judgment, such amendments to the Constitution as the said The House of Representatives shall be composed of ISAAC D. WILSON, exercise the power and authority vested by the laws by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are or modified; and all the officers appointed by the thousand eight hundred and sixty, and thence continued Congress, and shall, until otherwise provided by the Congress, States, except in cases of impeachment. laws shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress. the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be The ordinances of secession were the actual legal The Legislature shall and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their any other emolument from this Confederacy, or any of the be employed in the service of the Confederacy, reserving the citizens of South Carolina engaged in commerce, that Full faith and credit, shall be given in each State to thereof, at Charleston, on the twenty-sixth day of ARTICLE VI. over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) States. casualities of war, or contagious disorders, should law.         9. All debts contracted and engagements entered into first meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives, what officer shall then act as President, and such officer States shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said propositions set forth in "An act supplementary to an act houses papers, and effects, against unreasonable State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the year; and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order 3. and sixty. Done at Charleston, the twenty-second day of December, by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause some one of the heads of department, and submitted to fifteen hundred pounds sterling, clear of debt. 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