Table of Contents
- 1 What right was protected in the Confederate Constitution?
- 2 Did the Confederate Constitution have a Bill of Rights?
- 3 Did the South support states rights?
- 4 What did the Constitution of the Confederate States say about slavery?
- 5 What did the south want during the Civil War?
- 6 What was the solution to the issue of states rights?
What right was protected in the Confederate Constitution?
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.
What rights did the South fight for?
1. The South seceded over states’ rights. Confederate states did claim the right to secede, but no state claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact, Confederates opposed states’ rights — that is, the right of Northern states not to support slavery.
Did the Confederate Constitution have a Bill of Rights?
Confederate Constitution did not extend “bill of rights” to state actions. As in the U.S. Constitution, this section specifically limits the authority of Congress. By placing this prohibition within Article 1, section 9, the Confederate constitution effectively reiterated the Supreme Court decision in Barron v.
What was the most important difference between the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the Confederate States of America?
The Confederate version used the word “slaves,” unlike the U.S. Constitution. One article banned any Confederate state from making slavery illegal. Another ensured that slave owners could travel between Confederate states with their slaves.
Did the South support states rights?
Southerners consistently argued for states rights and a weak federal government but it was not until the 1850s that they raised the issue of secession.
What did the Constitution say about slavery?
Text. Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What did the Constitution of the Confederate States say about slavery?
One article banned any Confederate state from making slavery illegal. The Confederate constitution also accounted for slaves as three-fifths of a state’s population (like the U.S. Constitution did at the time), and it required that any new territory acquired by the nation allow slavery.
Why was state’s rights important to the south?
Although not directly tied to state’s rights, Southerners felt that the taxes authorized by Article 1, Section 8 of the U. S. constitution were not intended to be regionally discriminatory. Unfortunately, the actual language merely specified that federal taxes must be “ uniform throughout the United States.”
What did the south want during the Civil War?
The question is a sure sign that the person asking it has limited her readings to the books of Columbia University’s Eric Foner and his acolytes. In reality, however, Southerners wanted to protect a number of states rights beyond slavery, particularly when “rights” and “responsibilities” are recognized as opposite sides of the same coin.
What are the rights mentioned in the Constitution?
In reading the original U.S. Constitution, one finds very few specific rights mentioned, and those that are deal primarily with legal practices. Article I, section 9 protects the right of “habeas corpus” (a Latin term meaning “you may have the body”).
What was the solution to the issue of states rights?
Controversial—but peaceful—attempts at a solution included legal compromises, arguments, and debates such as the Wilmot Proviso in 1846, Senator Lewis Cass’ idea of popular sovereignty in the late 1840s, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in 1858.