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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 1:07 am 
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If the Confederate government copied the four-year terms of the US Government for their president, would Jefferson Davis have won a second term? Does he run for re-election in the fall of 1864 or do the events of the war in the summer of 64 cause him to lose support and be replaced? Would he be opposed by someone? Would the south even have two parties? It's also interesting to consider who would have ran against him. Maybe Breckinridge or Stephens? Or a military leader like Beauregard? No matter who won the Confederate election of 1864, it is hard to imagine the outcome of the war changing.

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Davis vs Beauregard would have been fascinating as they hated one another by 1864. The real problem would have been simply conducting an election with the confederacy all torn up into pieces. It may have just ended up being a vote of the soldiers in the trenches. If that was the case then I would think Beauregard would have won.

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Under the Confederate Constitution (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp) the President was appointed for a term of six years (Article II, Section 1 (1)). At the end of that term the President was ineligible to be appointed again as President, or Vice President [no puppet masters in the Confederacy].
Although the CS Constitution largely copied the US Constitution there were some differences, the Presidential term being one. Davis explained that particular difference in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government where he said:
"The official term of the President was fixed at six instead of four years, and it was provided that he should not be eligible for reƫlection. This was in accordance with the original draft of the Constitution of 1787."

So, had the Confederacy fared better, at the end of Davis' six-year term it would be time for someone new. Had the war finished with the Confederacy sustained, I suspect that there would have been a big call for R. E. Lee as President but I'm not sure he would have agreed to it. In which case I think Stephens would have become Confederate President. As an experienced politician and Vice President for a successful Confederacy he would have been difficult to defeat.

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