Did the confederacy have a supreme court and if so who was the chief justice

The structure of the Confederate government, as shaped by the Constitution of Confederate States of America, was very similar to that outlined by the United States Constitution with the three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. The Confederacy was attempting to stand up a new federal government of their own while also staying true to their supposed adherence to the importance of the rights of each of the individual states that had seceded from the Union before forming the Confederacy, so that caused many complications with getting the institutions of government off the ground, especially since they were in the midst of a brutal war of rebellion.

Given those complications, it's actually kind of surprising how successful they were in getting the Executive and Legislative branches started, first provisionally and then officially after their first federal elections. However, formally establishing the Supreme Court defined by the Confederate Constitution (in Article III, just as in the United States Constitution) was something that never happened, so there was no judiciary above the level of District Courts and no Chief Justice nominated by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. As in the United States, the President of the Confederacy was responsible for appointing federal judges and while the Supreme Court was never established, President Davis did appoint District Court judges -- many of whom had previously been the U.S. District Court judge for that particular jurisdiction prior to secession.

if I’m honest I’m kind of baffled that there’s anti-voting content going around. again. you cannot have forgotten so quickly how bad trump was and how hard the republicans tried to prevent you from voting. did you forget the russian bots??

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Articles of Confederation my problematic fave. Cringefail babygirl. You had no hope.

to or to not refer to the beltan government as a "league" (beltan league/league of belta)

on a personal level, no, reading “problematic” media wont like, change your moral compass

but i do feel like maybe! we could discuss uhhhh the history of racist fiction in america and the way it’s added to the overall self mythology of america and the way white people think about and interact with Black people to this day

rather than making 500 “haha people who think fiction affects reality are so stupid” posts

Reading the articles of confederation for my con law class and wanted to let you know that paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice are NOT entitled to privileges and immunities of free citizens! Thats such a funny list of exceptions to me,, I want to know the legal definition of a vagabond, we may as well add rascals, menaces, and scallywags to the list at this point. Also paupers? They said no <3 to poor people, what’s new I guess, anyway reblog if you are a pauper, vagabond, and/or fugitive of justice 🫡

The Moors Ran the South

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APUSH is fun because the Federalist party, The Federalist, the federalist system, the federal government, and the Federalist party are all different things you have to keep track off :)

On this shameful day in 2021, Trump’s violent mob temporarily overthrew the government by halting the electoral count. This from an officer of the United States who swore to uphold the Constitution.

Shays Rebellion of 1786, the 1st American Insurrection

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Shays Rebellion storms courthouses in Massachusetts Shays Rebellion of 1786 was a series of violent attacks by rural landowners on county courthouses and armories in Massachusetts.  It led to a full-blown military confrontation with the state militia in the winter of 1787. The angry rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers, now mostly farmers. They opposed the state’s tax and debt…

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Question about Jefferson Davis-if his term as csa president started before Lincoln's in 1861 why did he not face an election in 1864 like Lincoln did? When was the 1st term of Davis supposed to end

Good question!

You're correct in noting that Jefferson Davis took office as President of the Confederate States of America shortly before Lincoln took office. Davis was inaugurated on February 18, 1861 and Lincoln's first inauguration was March 4, 1861. And Lincoln had to win re-election in November 1864 before being inaugurated for his second term on March 4, 1865.

The difference is that Davis was only the "provisional" President of the Confederacy in the first year of the war. After secession began following Lincoln's election in November 1860 (while President Buchanan was a lame duck), delegates from the states that had seceded met in a Constitutional Convention to officially form the Confederacy and choose its initial leaders. While former U.S. Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia was given some consideration as President, Davis (with Georgia's Alexander Hamilton Stephens as his Vice President) was unanimously chosen as Confederate President by the delegates. But events were moving really quickly: Davis was inaugurated in Montgomery, Alabama -- the site of the Confederacy's Constitutional Convention -- just nine days after he was chosen as provisional President.

There was an actual Confederate Presidential election held in November 1861 (the mechanisms of the election were virtually identical to how the President of the United States was elected at the time). Davis and Stephens were unopposed, so they easily won re-election. Davis was inaugurated for what was intended to be his full Presidential term on February 22, 1862 (George Washington's birthday) in Richmond, Virginia, which had been chosen as the Confederacy's permanent capital by that point.

While the Confederate Constitution was very similar to the U.S. Constitution, there were some differences which help answer your question about when Davis's Presidential term was "supposed" to end. The Confederate Constitution limited the President to a single, six-year term*, so had the Civil War continued, Jefferson Davis would have been ineligible to seek re-election for another term, his full term would have ended on February 22, 1868 and he would have been succeeded by whomever had won the 1867 election. But, of course, none of that happened.

(*The single, six-year term for the President of the United States is an idea that has been debated throughout American history and at least sixteen U.S. Presidents have endorsed the idea, including Jimmy Carter. The Confederate Constitution also gave the President of the Confederacy a line-item veto -- a power which nearly every President of the United States has begged for over the years. Congress actually passed a law authorizing a federal line-item veto in 1996 and President Clinton briefly exercised that power that most of his predecessors and successors enthusiastically called for, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.)

On This Day: the continental congress finalizes the articles of confederation, and everyone goes, "Whew, that was tough. Good thing we don't have to ever do that again!"

States of the United States vs. the Federal Government

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  From before the adoption of the US Constitution in 1787, there has been strenuous argument, sometimes bordering on the violent, between those who wanted a strong central government and those who saw the individual states as the primary locus of governmental power—except for those 18 specific powers granted to the two houses of the federal government, as enumerated in the Constitution. (Former…

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I think the test went well but I kinda bullshited the second written response 🤪

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