'21 Favorite: Drafting the Confederate Constitution (1861)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This Thanksgiving week, we’re running some favorite episodes from the year that you may have missed. We’ll be back with new episodes the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

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This episode originally ran on March 11th. This day in 1861, the Confederate States of America ratifies its own constitution. It’s largely based on the United States constitution, but with some key changes.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss what values were expressed in the constitutional do-over, and why the similarities between the two documents might mean more than the differences.

Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory

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0:00.0	Hey everyone Jody here. It is hard to believe but we are already into holiday season for 2021
0:06.2	so over the next month or so we're gonna keep doing new shows and we've also got some really cool end of year specials plan.
0:13.6	We're also going to give ourselves a little bit of time off
0:16.2	and so during those stretches we will run back some of our favorite conversations
0:20.1	from the year.
0:21.3	Okay, let's get into it.
0:22.4	Here's one of our favorite episodes from 2021.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. my name is Jody Evergan.
0:35.0	This day, March 11, 1861, the Constitution.
0:42.5	is adopted.
0:43.6	The Southern states, of course, were fighting to secede, set up their own country, and, well, they
0:47.6	needed a Constitution.
0:49.7	And we're going to get into this, but the CSA Constitution is a really interesting document in terms of what
0:54.5	values it puts at its core, the very things that were tearing the country apart at that time,
0:59.1	but it's also a bit of a constitutional do-over.
1:02.1	Many of the changes in the CSA Constitution were just relatively
1:05.7	neutral updates and clarifications and new ideas about how government could run. It's a weird thing
1:10.8	to say, but maybe there are some things in the Constitution of the
1:13.2	Confederate States of America that we may want to think about these days.
1:17.1	So let's do that.
1:18.1	Here to discuss as always is Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello. Hello Jody. of which is if we consider a Constitution to be in a sense an expression of values, it obviously
1:38.3	sets out a lot of rules and norms, but if we think of it as an expression of values,
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