Befitting the new Confederacy’s claim to represent the true principles of the U. S. Constitution which the North had trampled upon, most of the provisional constitution was copied verbatim from that venerable document. The same was true of the permanent Confederate Constitution, adopted a month later, though some of its departures from the original were significant. The preamble omitted the general welfare clause and the phrase “a more perfect Union,” and added a clause after We the People: “each State acting in its sovereign and independent character.” Instead of the U. S. Constitution’s
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