Features & Benefits
- The Confederate Constitution granted line item veto powers to the president and also, in a way, to the Senate and Congress
- The constitution had many phrases and clauses that led to disagreements among the states in the original Union
- The Confederate Congress had powers almost identical to the US Congress
- The constitution aimed to tie the hands of the Federal government overall and to create a more restrained federal government compared to the US government
- The framers of the Confederate Constitution aimed to revise the constitution to eliminate the grievances which had arisen in the United States between 1787 and 1860
- The executive and legislative branches of the Confederate government were more powerful than the Federal government.