THE PROVISIONAL 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.......
- drafted by the First Committee of Twelve at attendance in Montgomery, AL for
the Confederate Constitution Meeting on February 4 -8, 1861. Adoption took
place on February, 8.
- The Confederate States of America got its name from the Provisional
Constitution.
- On February 9, Convention elected Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens
president and vice-president.
- Guiding Principle: to sustain, uphold, and perpetuate the fundamental
principles of the U.S. Constitution.
Some key
Implementations 
- Popular Sovereignty remained a right reserved to the individual states
- The Federal Government existed only as a common agent of sovereign
states
- Adoption of the States Rights Doctrine
- Only secured the rights of slave ownership and NOT the theory of slavery
- The Fugitive Slave Law from the Compromise of 1850
- Unicameral Congress
- By a 2/3 vote Congress could remove the president or vice-president
The First Committee of Twelve
Christopher Memminger (SC), Robert Woodward Barnell (SC), William Taylor
Sullivan (MS) Wiley Pope Harris (MS), James Patton Anderson (FL), James Byron
Owens (FL), Richard Wilde Walker (AL), Robert Hardy Smith (AL), Alexander
Hamilton Stephens (GA), Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (GA), John Perkins, Jr. (LA),
and Duncan Farrar Kenner (LA)
Constitutional Links
http://www.seark.net/~bosshogg/provconst.html
http://www.cstone.net/~wmm/SCV-VIRGINIA/article7.html
http://www.cbjd.net/wakeup/other/csapage.html
http://www.dixienet.org/csa-docs/csa-docs.html
http://www.powerplace.com/civilwar/provarti.html
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