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Constitution and Southern
The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.
Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.
In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U. S. 394 ( 1886 ), the reporter noted in the headnote to the opinion that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, " The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.
The Parliament of Southern Ireland was formally abolished in 1922, with the establishment of the Oireachtas under the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
An 1886 decision of the United States Supreme Court, in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, has been cited by various courts in the US as precedent to maintain that a corporation can be defined legally as a " person ", as described in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
" A Historiography of States ' Rights: John Taylor of Caroline's New Views of the Constitution ," Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, Spring / Summer 2011, Vol.
A similar function had been fulfilled by Article 73 of the Constitution of the Irish Free State, which carried over all legislation that had in force in Southern Ireland.
Following the war, the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens, and Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau to assist the integration of former slaves into Southern society.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad is sometimes cited for this finding because the court reporter's comments included a statement the Chief Justice made before oral arguments began, telling the attorneys during pre-trial that " the court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.
The Southern Rhodesia ( Annexation ) Order in Council 1923, section 3, provided that Southern Rhodesia " shall be known as the Colony of Southern Rhodesia " and the Southern Rhodesia ( Constitution ) Act 1961 and the Order in Council which followed it both referred to it as such.
When the rebellion was formally declared at an end by the passing of the Constitution of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ( Amendment ) ( No. 4 ) Act 1979, the United Kingdom resumed the governance of the colony under the direct control of the Governor under the name of Southern Rhodesia.
The Constitution of Southern Sudan provides for freedom of religion, and other laws and policies of the GoSS contribute to the generally-free practice of religion.
The INC and the Constitution of Southern Sudan both deny recognition to any political party which discriminates on the basis of religion.
Although the INC and the Constitution of Southern Sudan specifically prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion for candidates for the national civil service, the selection process favors party members and friends of the NCP.
The SP was the defendant in the landmark 1886 United States Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad which is often interpreted as having established certain corporate rights under the Constitution of the United States.
They argue that it was instead the result of the increasing cognitive dissonance in the minds of Northerners and ( some ) Southern non-slaveowners between the ideals that the United States was founded upon and identified itself as standing for, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, and the reality that the slave-power represented, as what they describe as an anti-democratic, counter-republican, oligarchic, despotic, authoritarian, if not totalitarian, movement for ownership of human beings as the personal chattels of the slaver.
Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine, and the fact that he helped defeat the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution, made Douglas unpopular in the South, which led to the 1860 split of the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern wings.
The schism in the Democratic Party over the Lecompton Constitution and Douglas ' Freeport Doctrine caused Southern " fire-eaters " to oppose front runner Stephen A. Douglas ' bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The office, which was created in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland, is a lineal successor of the offices of Attorney-General for Ireland, Attorney-General for Southern Ireland and the Attorney-General of the Irish Free State ().

Constitution and Confederation
Dissatisfied with the weaknesses of Articles of Confederation, in 1787 Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution.
* 1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada ; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
Article 58. 1 of the April 18, 1999, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ( official, French version ) provides that " Switzerland has an army.
The Constitution of the United States ratified in 1789 created a relatively strong federal republic to replace the relatively weak confederation under the first attempt at a national government with the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union ratified in 1783.
They proposed a new Constitution for the Swiss Confederation which would draw the several cantons into a closer relationship.
The government under the Articles of Confederation had determined, as a transitional measure to the new constitution, that the date for " commencing proceedings " under the U. S. Constitution would be March 4, 1789.
Article Six of the United States Constitution establishes the Constitution and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land, forbids a religious test as a requirement for holding a governmental position and holds the United States under the Constitution responsible for debts incurred by the United States under the Articles of Confederation.
The first clause of the Article provides that debts contracted prior to the adoption of the Constitution remain valid, as they were under the Articles of Confederation.
** Constitution of the North German Confederation comes into effect, creating a confederation of states under the leadership of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck.
In reality, the delegates to this Constitutional Convention soon decided that they needed to start over with a blank slate to write a new Constitution of the United States to completely replace the Articles of Confederation.
When the Articles of Confederation were superseded by the Constitution of the United States, the Confederation Congress was superseded by the United States Congress.
In the War in Defense of the Constitution, pro-Russian conservative Polish magnates, the Confederation of Targowica, fought against Polish forces supporting the constitution, believing that Russians would help them restore the Golden Liberty.
Denmark again attempted to integrate Schleswig, by creating a new common constitution ( the so called November Constitution ) for Denmark and Schleswig in 1863, but the German Confederation, led by Prussia and Austria, defeated the Danes in the Second War of Schleswig the following year.
The Federal Convention sent the proposed Constitution to the Confederation Congress, which at the end of September 1787 submitted it to the states for ratification.
In 1853, a Federal Constitution was enacted ( the current Constitution of Argentina, through amendments ) and Urquiza was elected President of the Argentine Confederation.
John Hanson was elected first President by the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation ; Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer was a signer of the United States Constitution ; and Thomas Stone was one of four of the Maryland delegation who signed the Declaration of Independence.
He was an advocate of individual freedoms and promoted the rights of the provinces against the centralizing initiatives of the federal government while also promoting national unity against Quebec separatism and hosted the 1967 " Confederation of Tomorrow " conference in Toronto in an unsuccessful attempt to achieve an agreement for a new Constitution of Canada.
In L. Neil Smith's alternate history novel The Probability Broach ( 1980 ), Albert Gallatin convinces the militia not to put down the rebellion, but instead to march on the nation's capital, execute George Washington for treason, and replace the Constitution with a revised Articles of Confederation.
The cantons also retain all powers and competencies not delegated to the Confederation by the Constitution.

Constitution and differed
" Jefferson, who noted that " Col. Taylor and myself have rarely, if ever, differed in any political principle of importance ," considered Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated " the most logical retraction of our governments to the original and true principles of the Constitution creating them, which has appeared since the adoption of the instrument.
The finding thus differed from later Court rulings which argued that Federal government action affecting intrastate production breached the Commerce Clause of the Constitution: in Panama v. Ryan the Court found that Congress had violated the nondelegation doctrine by vesting the President with legislative powers without clear guidelines, giving the President enormous and unchecked powers.
Therefore, should the chief executive or the other branch of government or all branches together act to suspend The Constitution under a rule of martial law, all power granted to government would be cancelled and differed back to the granting power.
The Constitution framed by our fathers is that of these Confederate States ” and that it differedonly from that of our fathers insofar as it is explanatory of their well-known intent …” Some scholars agree with Davis that the Provisional Constitution sought to clarify many of the ambiguities of the original Constitution.
The race-based conservatism in the American South differed from the business-based conservatism in the North in its strong support for white supremacy, and insistence on a second-class powerless status for blacks, regardless of the Constitution.

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