Free Market
Author:
Randall G. Holcombe
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flaws was the Confederate Constitution. The Confederate Constitutional Convention opened in February 1861. Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina, called the “Father “Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property [is] to be endangered.... I States...” The Southern drafters thought the general welfare clause was an open door for any type of government intervention. They were, of course, right.