149 years ago today, delegates from the six seceded Southern states (South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana) met and began drafting a Constitution, creating a new repulic, the Confederate States of America, dedicated to the principle of State's Rights. Below is the preamble...
"We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."
Five States later joined the Confederate States of America: Texas, Virginia, Tennesse, Arkansas, and North Carolina.
Hooray for the Confederacy!!! :)
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