2. The Confederate Constitution also allowed federal executive officers (and judges) serving within an individual state to be impeached by the state's legislature.
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3. The Confederate Congress was also empowered to grant the principal officer of departments a seat on the House floor, a measure that watered down the separation of powers barriers from a different direction.
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4. Not all the non-slavery-specific innovations in the Confederate Constitution were bad (there was also a line item veto), but the thrust was away from the Founders' strong, separate, coequal, independent branches of federal authority, towards a more administrative state.
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As unlikely as it may have seemed, you could imagine this provision would prevent a southern “Lincoln” from ever having much power.
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