THE
PERMANENT CONSTITUTION
Note: The information below is taken from The Southern Traditionalist, prepared by Jim Langcuster. The information can be found in its entirety at http://www.freedixie.net/const/const.html
Some History.....
- Delegates meet on March of 1861 in Montgomery, AL for the Montgomery
Convention. The Permanent Constitution was formally adopted on
March 11.
- Writers known as "The Second Committee of Twelve"
- Just as the Provisional Constitution, Permanent Constitution took the shape
and flow of the U.S. Constitution.
Some Key Implementations 
- Embraced Free Trade
- Banned Internal Improvements
- Qualification to Enter Confederacy Strengthened
- Restricted Presidential Tenure to Only One Six-Year Term
- Restricted the Powers of the Judicial Branch
- Established a Streamline Amending Process
- Retained the 3/5 Clause
- Declined to Adopt a State Succession Clause
- Line Item Veto
- Strict Budget Procedures that Prohibited Congress from Appropiating
Money Without 2/3 Vote by House and Senate unless requested by
President and Submitted to Congress
- Executive Officers held seats in Congress
- NO Protective Tariff
- President Held Authority to Remove Any of Executive Officials
Amendments
- Repealed 3/5 Clause so that Blacks Could Be Counted Fully for
Congressional Apportionment
- Proposal to Admit Non-Slaveholding States only by a unanimous vote
- Repel Prohibiting Foreign Slave Trade and to Grant Power to Regulate
such Trade to Congress
- A proposal prohibiting Congress from Contracting any War-Related
Purposes and Import Revenue not exceed 15%.
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Constitutional Links
http://www.constitution.org/csa/csa_cons.htm
http://www.cstone.net/~wmm/SCV-VIRGINIA/article1.htm
http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/csaconst.html
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