Talk:Confederate States of America (Muscle Shoals) (1983: Doomsday)

Good job Brian. One thing, though. Have you personally compared the two constitutions. I once went looked at a site that had the text of the Constitution of the CSA with different fonts to show additions or subtractions since the CSA laid out their constitution with the US constitution squarely in front of them. All the new CSA had to do was choose whether or not to retain the changes -- there were very few, really -- or go with the original USA. I looked for that site but found this one instead : http://www.filibustercartoons.com/CSA.htm which lays the documents beside each other and comments on the changes. The only things most modern "rebs" would change would be the references the sale and ownership of slaves.

I think the reasons you give for the end of the "Confederate experiment" in the mid-south were good ones. It is a shame that such infant states could not get along (there were only four of them) better. It is strange, though, that some thought that their small federal government had too much power. The (P)USA, in drawing up the 1991 Constitution, was two large states and three small ones dependent upon a strong central government for survival. At the time they had a common enemy, so the changes they made were mostly cosmetic. Their first president took charge, and if they had not followed the US Constitution so closely they might still have the same president twenty years later!

The provision for one term presidents may have been the new CSA's biggest mistake. Twelve years with one man at the helm may have been enough to grow stronger. SouthWriter 01:50, May 3, 2010 (UTC)