The Constitution of the Confederate States of America

‘The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants’ – Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s prophecy that society would suffer from a lack a political revolution would only take another fifty years to be realized on the American continent.

For many good and bad reasons public sentiment south of the Mason-Dixon Line demanded that state governments secede from the United States of America, after the election of Abraham Lincoln. It was argued that state governments had entered into the original confederation of states of their own free will, they therefor had to sovereignty to leave if they so choose.

South Carolina was the first to leave, followed by state governments in every other southern state except Maryland and Delaware. The Second American Revolution had begun in earnest. The new founding fathers believed they were following in the great example of Jefferson and Washington.

This book is a collection of original primary source documents, that give a unique insight into the political class of the Confederate States. These documents include; the Declaration of Independence 1776, the Articles of Confederation 1777, the Constitution of the United States 1787, the Ordinances of Secession of the 13 Confederate States, the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States, and the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.