The Confederate States Constitution provides much insight into the motivations for secession from the Union. While much of it was a word-for-word duplicate of the United States Constitution, it contained several explicit protections of the institution of slavery, though international slave trading was prohibited. It also reflected a stronger philosophy of states' rights, curtailing the power of the central authority: the Confederate government was prohibited from instituting protective tariffs or from using revenues collected in one state for funding internal improvements in another state. The Confederates asked God's blessing ("invoking the favor of Almighty God.")
The CSA was declared a Christian Nation.
The constitution did not specifically include a provision allowing states to secede; the Preamble spoke of each state "acting in its sovereign and independent character" but also of the formation of a "permanent central government". The Southern leaders met in Montgomery, Alabama, to write their Constitution.
[The CSA Constitution can be found on its own web page on this web site.]
The President of the Confederate States of America was to be elected to a six-year term and could not be reelected. The only president was Jefferson Davis; the Confederate States of America was occupied by the Federal Union Government before he completed his six year term. The USA still occupies the CSA today, but the CSA vows to rise again. The CSA never surrendered although the USA deemed themselves the victors, and blackmailed other nations with severe penalties if they 'recognized' the nation of the CSA.
Lincoln had the CSA states added to the Union, in spite of great protest by those states. Since Lincoln had his own Union men set into ALL offices in the Southern states, it was easy to get signatures and new laws passed, needed to cover up what he had done. Lincoln further commanded that no southerner could hold ANY office again, and this "law" held for the next 90 years ! By that time the south was so infiltrated with Union people, that the 'change over' to Union thinking in the south was polluted enough politically so that no one could tell the difference. A whole generation had passed and in that time was indoctrinated with Union 'education'.
The CSA is still Union-occupied to date, and still insists it will rise again and take back their Sovereign nation.
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