Constitution of the Confederate States of America,
Articles V - VII

The sections where the Confederate States Constitution differs from that of the United States are indicated in the following way: those parts of the U.S. Constitution that were deleted are in braces, and the new words inserted in the C. S. Constitution are placed in brackets. Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization follow the C. S. Constitution except in the parts unique to the U.S. Constitution.

ARTICLE V

{The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.} [Upon the demand of any three States, legally assembled in their several conventions, the Congress shall summon a convention of all the States, to take into consideration such amendments to the Constitution as the said States shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said demand it made; and should any of the proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on by the said convention-- voting by States-- and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, or by conventions in two-thirds thereof-- as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the general convention-- they shall thenceforward form a part of this Constitution. But no State shall, without its consent, be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate.]

ARTICLE VI

[1. The Government established by this Constitution is the successor of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, and all laws passed by the latter shall continue in force until the same shall be repealed or modified; and all the officers appointed by the same shall remain in office until their successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices abolished.] 2. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the {United} [Confederate] States under this Constitution, as under the {Confederation} [Provisional Government]. 3. This Constitution, and the laws of the {United} [Confederate] States which shall be made in pursuance thereof. and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the {United} [Confederate] States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. 4. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the {United} [Confederate] States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the {United} [Confederate] States. 5. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people [of the several States]. 6. The powers not delegated to the {United} [Confederate] States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people [thereof].

ARTICLE VII

The ratification of the conventions of {nine} [five] States, shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same. [When five States shall have ratified this Constitution, in the manner before specified, the Congress under the Provisional Constitution shall prescribe the time for holding the election of President and Vice President; and for the meeting of the Electoral College; and for counting the votes, and inaugurating the President. They shall, also, prescribe the time for holding the first election of members of Congress under this Constitution, and the time for assembling the same. Until the assembling of such Congress, the Congress under the Provisional Government shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted them; not extending beyond the time limited by the Constitution of the Provisional Government.] {Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.} [Adopted unanimously by the Congress of the Confederate States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, sitting in convention at the capitol, in the city of Montgomery, Ala., on the eleventh day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one.]

[ Howell Cobb, President of the Congress South Carolina: R. Barnwell Rhett, C. G. Memminger, Wm. Porcher Miles, James Chestnut, Jr., R.W. Barnwell, William W. Boyce, Lawrence M. Keitt, T. J. Withers. Georgia: Francis S. Bartow, Martin J. Crawford, Benjamin H. Hill, Thos. R.R. Cobb. Florida: Jackson Morton, J. Patton Anderson, Jas. B. Owens. Alabama: Richard W. Walker, Robt. H. Smith, Colin J. McRae, William P. Chilton, Stephen F. Hale, David P. Lewis, Tho. Fearn, Gill Shorter, J. L. M. Curry. Mississippi: Alex. M. Clayton, James T. Harrison, William S. Barry, W. S. Wilson, Walker Brooke, W.P. Harris, J. A. P. Campbell. Louisiana: Alex. de Clouet, C. M. Conrad, Duncan F. Kenner, Henry Marshall. Texas: John Hemphill, Thomas N. Waul, John H. Reagan, Williamson S. Oldham, Louis T. Wigfall, John Gregg, William Beck Ochiltree.]

Preamble & Article I
Articles II - IV

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