Can they supersede the Constitution? Can a president and the Senate ratify a treaty banning private gun ownership in the U.S.?
Let me ask you: if this were just some scheme of Davis' that nobody else thought he had any authority to do or that would have required a constitutional amendment to do.....why did the Confederate Congress authorize it?
Davis surely sent the delegation abroad. He may well have told them to promise an end to slavery. But when did the Confederate Congress authorize it?
Surely they would have pointed out this argument too if it were valid wouldn't they have?
Assuming for the sake of argument that they had, concern for what was constitutional and what was not was not a hallmark of the Confederate government or the Confederate Congress.
Can they supersede the Constitution? Can a president and the Senate ratify a treaty banning private gun ownership in the U.S.?
They obviously thought they could. As for the latter question, its a real concern that some future US government may try exactly that.
Davis surely sent the delegation abroad. He may well have told them to promise an end to slavery. But when did the Confederate Congress authorize it?
1864. Had it been strictly up to President Davis, he'd have done so sooner. This was something he had been lobbying the Confederate Congress for for a while.
Assuming for the sake of argument that they had, concern for what was constitutional and what was not was not a hallmark of the Confederate government or the Confederate Congress.
I disagree. Relative to the US federal government at the time they were quite scrupulous about it.