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 Constitution of the Confederate States is an agreement made between independent States. By its terms all the powers of Government are separated into classes as follows, viz.: 1. Such powers as ...

Ardent defenders of slavery wrote just such a constitution for the breakaway Confederate States of America. Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, explained one ...

The effort to make the national debt sacrosanct and to repudiate the Confederate ... United States bonds. The Supreme Court did hold that Congress had exceeded its power under the Constitution ...

In this episode, we're going to find out more about him and the power structure of the Civil War rebel states. How did the confederate constitution differ from that of the United States of America?