Article IV. An Ordinance to Ratify the Constitution of the Confederate States of America

An Ordinance to Ratify the Constitution of the Confederate States of America

Whereas, on the eleventh day of March, A.D. 1861, at Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, a Constitution was adopted by a Congress of delegates from the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas, united under the name of the Confederate States of America, which Constitution hath been ratified by each of the said States:

Now, therefore, this Convention, having seen and considered the said Constitution, doth, in behalf of the people of the State of North Carolina, adopt and ratify the said Constitution and form of Government, the tenor of which appears in a schedule hereto annexed.

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Amendment Source: 1861 62 Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of North Carolina Ord 11

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