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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Why the Confederate States did not have a Supreme Court. (search)
It prints the third article as the judicial power of the Confederate States shall be vested in one superior court, &c., Volume XII, page 311. The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, at its first session, held at Montgomery, on March 16, 1861, proceeded to organize the judicial power as provided for in the Constitution. By chapter LXI.—An act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America—the Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact that theIII, passed July 31, 1861, entitled an act further to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America,provides the Congress of the Confederate States do enact that so much of the act approved March 16, 1861, entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the Confederate States of America, as directs the holding of a session of the Supreme Court of the Confederate States in January next, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and no session o