Constitution of the Confederate States of America Quotes

“no person of foreign birth, not a citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote for any officer, civil or political, State or Federal.”
― Confederate States Of America, Constitution of the Confederate States of America

“In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by”
― Confederate States Of America, Constitution of the Confederate States of America

“3. No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs; or to whom such service or labor may be due.”
― Confederate States Of America, Constitution of the Confederate States of America

“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.”
― Confederate States Of America, Constitution of the Confederate States of America

“No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro”
― Confederate States Of America, Constitution of the Confederate States of America