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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC07359
From Archive Folder	Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865
Title	Document to Senate vetoing Confederate Congress Act allowing congressional appointments of midshipmen
Date	23 January 1865
Author	Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)
Document Type	Government document
Content Description	A document from Davis to the Confederate Senate, in which he explains his reasons for considering the act, which would allow the House, Senate, and President to select midshipmen, unconstitutional because it will infringe on the president's sole authority to make such appointments. Claims that the act is "repugnant to the whole theory of our Republican Institutions, which are based on the fundamental idea of independent and distinct functions in each of the departments of government." Parses the language of the act in relation to the Confederate Constitution.
Subjects	Confederate Constitution Civil War Military History Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America Government and Civics Navy
People	Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)
Place written	s.l.
Theme	The American Civil War; Government & Politics; Law
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide To the Senate of the Confederate States of America. I feel constrained to return to the Senate without my approval an Act which originated in your Honorable body, entitled, "an Act to increase the number of acting Midshipmen in the Navy and to provide the mode of appointment." The Act provides that the additional acting Midshipmen "shall be appointed under the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy as follows: one from each Congressional District upon the recommendation of the Representative in Congress: two at large from each State upon the recommendation of the Senators thereof respectively: and ten at large by the President." The Constitution in the 2nd Article, 2nd Section, 2nd clause, after giving to the President power to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the [2] [docket] Mesa Crest Vetoing 8.14.2. Jany, 25 1865. Read. House of Reps Jany 26th 1865.

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