Wednesday, April 07, 2010  Remembering the Confederate
Constitution   Continuing our commemoration of Confederate
History Month, here are some selections from that great charter
of human liberty, the Constitution of the Confederate States of
America. The Constitution of the Confederacy lists the great
freedoms that our Confederate Forefathers fought for.  Article
I, section 9, clauses 1 and 2:    [These clauses, in conjunction
with Article IV, section 2, clause 1, preserve the status quo
before the Civil War regarding the international and interstate
slave trade. The status quo consisted of (1) the 1808 ban on
importing slaves into the United States (which might lower their
market value); and (2) protection of the interstate slave trade
(guaranteed by the Confederate Constitution's Article IV,
section 2, clause 1). Article I section 9 clause 2 also gives
the Confederate Congress the power to ban importation of slaves
from border states still in the Union if Congress so chooses.]
Article I, section 9, clause