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Its actually from a portions of a book on Rhett.

I found the South Carolina Resolutions....

RESOLUTIONS

Suggesting amendments to the Constitution of the Confederate States.

Resolved, That so soon as the Government of the Confederate States of America, created by the "Constitution" which has been now ratified, shall be securely established, and in peaceful operation, the State of South Carolina ought to " demand" that (two other States concurring) the Congress shall summon a Convention of all the States, to take into consideration the following amendments to the said Constitution, to wit: 1. To amend the second section of the first Article by' striking out from the third clause thereof the following words, to wit: " which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years," and the words, " three-fifths of all slaves," and inserting after the words, "respective numbers," the words, " including slaves." 2. To strike out the second clause of the eighth section of the first Article, and insert: " The Congress shall not contract any debt except for war purposes; and all expenditures in excess of revenues from imports (which shall not exceed fifteen per cent. ad valorem) and other sources, shall be met by direct taxation, to be provided for by the Congress authorizing the expenditure." 3. In lieu of the first and second clauses of the ninth section of the first Article, to insert the following: "Congress shall have power to prohibit the importation or introduction of slaves from any region not a State or Territory of this Confederacy." 4. To amend the third section of the fourth Article by adding to the first clause thereof, the words: " Nor shall any State in which African slavery does not, by law, exist, be admitted, without the consent of all the States, expressed through their respective Legislatures."

Done at Charleston, the fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

D. F. JAMISON, President r.f the Convention

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Apparently there was some disagreement with South Carolina's demands from the other six states.

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David Upton

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I agree *NM*
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Ok, now I see it *NM*
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