What does the CONFEDERATE Constitution say about "Slavery"?

[deanrd]

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What does the CONFEDERATE Constitution say about "Slavery"?

Section 2.3:
Representatives and Direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Confederacy, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all slaves.

SECTION 9.

1. The importation of negroes of the African race, from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
2. Congress shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Confederacy.
3. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.
4. No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves, shall be passed.
5. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.

SECTION 2.

1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime against the laws of such State, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the Executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
3. No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs, or to whom such service or labor may be due.

Section 3.3:
The Confederate States may acquire new territory, and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide government for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several States; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form states to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress, and by the territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories, shall have the right to take to such territory any slaves, lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.

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Remember, Confederate States were firm believers in "states rights". Unless the other states interfered with their ability to hold on to their slaves. Then the slave holder's rights took precedence.

What the Confederate Constitution proves beyond a doubt is that saying the Civil War was about states rights and not slavery is flat out bullsh!t.

 

[cnm]

This is hardly news. The Vice President of the Confederate States made speeches outlining how the new government was built on the new idea of the inferiority of the black man.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

ummm the Civil War ended over 150 years ago, why are the dumb liberal crackpots still trying to fight it

 

[Two Thumbs]

 

[deanrd]

Apparently, Republicans do.

Trump says the confederacy is part of his great heritage.

I believe him.

 

[deanrd]

Sorry Confederate Republicans. Blacks refuse to be slaves. You'll just have to deal with it.

The GOP needs to understand, this isn't the 1950's. Those days are gone. THEY WILL FIGHT BACK!

 

[Two Thumbs]

Apparently, Republicans do.

Trump says the confederacy is part of his great heritage.

I believe him.

don't see any statues.

another rdean fail, so he trolls his own thread.

 

[deanrd]

Apparently, Republicans do.

Trump says the confederacy is part of his great heritage.

I believe him.

don't see any statues.

another rdean fail, so he trolls his own thread.

You don't see any of the 1500 confederate statues?

Look harder.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

ummm the Civil War ended over 150 years ago, why are the dumb liberal crackpots still trying to fight it

Because Russia!

 

[Two Thumbs]

Apparently, Republicans do.

Trump says the confederacy is part of his great heritage.

I believe him.

don't see any statues.

another rdean fail, so he trolls his own thread.

You don't see any of the 1500 confederate statues?

Look harder.

looked at you pics again, still no statues.

poor leftist snowflakes, harmed by things that don't move

 

[whitehall]

Funny how lefties seem so concerned about the "confederate constitution" when the confederacy only existed four years and the history of slavery went back 200 years. The British and the French and the Spanish brought slaves to the New World. Why isn't the English "Union Jack" flag banned by liberals?

 

[deanrd]

Apparently, Republicans do.

Trump says the confederacy is part of his great heritage.

I believe him.

don't see any statues.

another rdean fail, so he trolls his own thread.

You don't see any of the 1500 confederate statues?

Look harder.

looked at you pics again, still no statues.

poor leftist snowflakes, harmed by things that don't move

Here is your list. State by state.

Here's a state by state list of confederate monuments that need to go down! :D - AFROPUNK

Spend a minute looking them up. Enjoy!

 

[deanrd]

Funny how lefties seem so concerned about the "confederate constitution" when the confederacy only existed four years and the history of slavery went back 200 years. The British and the French and the Spanish brought slaves to the New World. Why isn't the English "Union Jack" flag banned by liberals?

Funny that right wingers want to go back to those days. That's why they want monuments to traitors.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Apparently, Republicans do.

Trump says the confederacy is part of his great heritage.

I believe him.

don't see any statues.

another rdean fail, so he trolls his own thread.

You don't see any of the 1500 confederate statues?

Look harder.

looked at you pics again, still no statues.

poor leftist snowflakes, harmed by things that don't move

Here is your list. State by state.

Here's a state by state list of confederate monuments that need to go down! :D - AFROPUNK

Spend a minute looking them up. Enjoy!

What does the CONFEDERATE Constitution say about "Slavery"?

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