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The Confederate States Congress had delegations from 13 states and several territories and Indian tribes. The state delegation apportionment was specified in the Confederate Constitution using the same population basis for the free population and a three-fifths rule for slaves as had been used in the U.S. Constitution. [106]
The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, fully the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, was a unicameral congress of deputies and delegates called together from the Southern States which became the governing body of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States from February 4, 1861, to February 17, 1862.
The majority of those in uniform would not re-enlist after their one-year commitment, thus on April 16, 1862, the Confederate Congress imposed the first mass conscription on North American territory. (A year later, on March 3, 1863, the United States Congress passed the Enrollment Act.) Rather than a universal draft, the first program was a ...
The Congress shall have power – To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for revenue, necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States; but no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to ...
The 1st Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, convened between February 18, 1862, and February 17, 1864. This assembly took place during the first two years of Jefferson Davis 's presidency , convening at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond , Virginia .
The 2nd Confederate States Congress, consisting of the Confederate States Senate and the Confederate States House of Representatives, met from May 2, 1864, to March 18, 1865, during the last year of Jefferson Davis's presidency, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia; [1] the Confederacy's government effectively dissolved 16 days later, when it fled Richmond on April 3, 1865.
Elections to the Confederate States Congress were held from May to November 1863, [1] during what was intended to be the first of two midterms within President Jefferson Davis' six-year term. The number of members in the House of Representatives who openly opposed the policies of President Davis increased from 26 to 41 out of 106, [ 2 ] [ 1 ...
The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America. Richmond: R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress. Mathews, James M. (1862a) "Public Laws of the Confederate States of America, Passed at the Second Session of the First Congress; 1862." The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America. Richmond: R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress.