...federal government was a proxy for all the people rather than of the individual sovereign states, to "We, the people of the Confederate States, each State...acting in its sovereign and independent character "It outlawed the slave trade (it didn't outlaw slavery). It required a balanced budget. It gave the...

...the sovereign authority for the Confederate Constitution was expressly acknowledged to derive from "the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character" [emphasis added]."' Second, "the institution of negro slavery" was guaranteed constitutional protection...

...this occasion, for the following adaptations made in the 1787 Preamble: We the People of the [United] Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a [more perfect Union] permanent federal government, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,...

...Confederate constitution said nothing about the right of secession. Its preamble began as follows: "We the people of the Confederate States, each State...acting in its sovereign and independent character ... do ordain and establish this Constitution."21 The italicized words constitute an addition to the...

...September 1789, ratified 7 May 1992. APPENDIX D: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA We, the people of the Confederate States, each State...sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings...

...language of the US Constitution in their new constitution. "We, the people of the United States" became "We, the people of the Confederate States, each state...acting in its sovereign and independent character." From its birth, the Confederacy was founded on the rights of individual states instead of the rights...

...the first day's debate turned on this single issue before they finally agreed to address the world as "We, the people of the Confederate States, each State...acting in its sovereign and independent character." They were individual peoples of supreme states taking collective action, not a single people merely...

...Several highlights from the Confederate Constitution are presented below: 1. The Issue of Sovereignty We, the people of the Confederate States, each state...sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government . . . (Preamble) ll. Taxation, especially the protective tariff The...

...racial references; supported slavery; and invoked the name of God. The rebels' preamble began thus: "We the people of the Confederate States, each state...acting in its sovereign and independent character...." The Confederate Constitution then would have none of the honorably awkward circumlocutionary avoidance...

...the Confederate States of America, adopted March 1 1, 1861. The preamble identifies the parties as 'We, the people of the Confederate States, each State...acting in its sovereign and independent character.' The sovereignty of the states is not in the background; it's front and center. Article in, section...