To quote Jaffa (1994, 47), "But Calhoun's constitutionalism had triumphed nevertheless in the framing of a new constitution--that of the Confederate States of America
This was a statement by the vice president of the Confederate States of America
At the beginning of the Civil War, however, the Confederate States of America
endeavored to mute these multiple and interpenetrating times in an attempt to create an orderly, precise, and modern war machine based on the clock.
Many blacks and Northerners say the 11 Southern states that left the Union to form the Confederate States of America
did so to keep African Americans in chains, and that honoring their battle flag therefore insults blacks.
To help launch this new initiative, IFC also announced today that it has selected CSA: THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
, executive produced by Spike Lee; I AM A SEX ADDICT, 2005's Gotham Award winner for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You; THREE TIMES, named as 2005's Best Undistributed Film by the Village Voice's National Critics Poll; AMERICAN GUN, starring Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden; RUSSIAN DOLLS, starring Audrey Tautou; and SORRY, HATERS, starring Robin Wright Penn and Sandra Oh, as the first films to will be distributed Day and Date.
The Confederate States of America
adopted as its flag the original version of the Stars and Bars.
It is well to remember that, at the time, President Lincoln and his cabinet purposefully did not officially recognize the Confederate States of America
as an independent nation.
23, Texas voters ratified secession by more than a 3-1 margin, and on March 2, the fledgling Confederate States of America
government approved the admission of Texas.
Eleven southern slave states broke away from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America
Confederate: of the Confederate States of America
(South) during the Civil War.
The war was fought "between the United States government and the eleven Southern states that formed the Confederate States of America
Possessions, Confederate States of America
, British North America and all British Commonwealth Countries, stamps, covers, postal stationery, and Back- of-Book material.
In February, the seceding states formed the Confederate States of America
Despite solid studies of the Confederate Congress, the issue of states' rights, and the controversies between Jefferson Davis and his opponents, historians of the Confederate States of America
have concentrated on military events and personalities at the expense of trying to understand the nature and meaning of political life in the short-live Confederacy.
In 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America
in Montgomery, Alabama.