Confederate States of America
Department of State
Mission Statement:
To negotiate a peace treaty between the Confederate States and the United States to end the occupation of the Confederate States and its territories by the United States.
Confederate diplomacy in the 21st century is based on fundamental beliefs: our national government has never surrendered to the occupational government of the United States. Our freedom and prosperity rely on a peaceful transition of power to restore our sovereignty and independence. Our freedom is best protected by ensuring that our states are guaranteed a republican form of government and that we form no entangling alliances. In this moment in history, we recognize that the Confederate States has an immense responsibility to use its power constructively to defend its security and culture at home and to advance free and fair trade between ourselves and other nations.
Globalization is endangering our sovereignty, our laws, our work force, our security, our culture, our monetary system, and our freedoms. In the coming years, the principal aims of the Department of State are clear. These aims are anchored in three underlying and interdependent components – diplomacy, development, and defense.
First, we will strive to build and maintain strong relationships with our neighbors and other nations of good will in pursuit of our mission. Our foreign policy suggests that we will increase our chances of success abroad by exerting principled leadership while seeking to work with others to achieve our goals. We will keep the public informed about Confederate States foreign policy and relations with other countries and providing feedback from the public to administration officials.
Second, we will combine our diplomatic skills and development skills to foster free and fair trade between ourselves and the world community of nations by assisting Confederate States businesses in the international marketplace. We will promote freedom of speech, conscience, religion, and the rule of law. We will coordinate and provide support for international activities of other Confederate States agencies (local, state, or federal government), official visits overseas and at home, and other diplomatic efforts.
Third, we must protect our nation against enemies, both domestic and foreign. We will defend our borders against invasion and illegal immigration. We will defend our cultural heritage. We will protect and assist Confederte States citizens living and traveling abroad.
The Executive Branch and the Confederate States Congress have constitutional responsibilities for Confederate States foreign policy. Within the Executive Branch, the Department of State is the lead Confederate States foreign affairs agency, and its head, the Secretary of State, is the President’s principal foreign policy advisor, though other officials or individuals may have more influence on his foreign policy decisions. The Department advances Confederate States objectives and interests in the world through its primary role in developing and implementing the President’s foreign policy. The Department also supports the foreign affairs activities of other Confederate States Government entities including the Confederate States Department of Commerce.
No. 24.] AN ACT - To organize the Department of State
SECTION 1.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That there shall be an Executive Department to be denominated the Department of State; and there shall be a principal officer therein to be called the Secretary of State, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall, from time to time, be enjoined on or entrusted to him by the President of the Confederate States, agreeably to the Constitution, relative to correspondences, commissions or instructions to or with public ministers or consuls from the Confederate States, or to negotiations with public ministers from Foreign States, or princes, or to memorials or other applications from foreign public ministers, and other foreigners, or to such other matters respecting foreign affairs as the (President) [CSA Security Council] of the Confederate States shall assign to the said department; and furthermore the said principal officer shall conduct the business of the said department in such manner as the President of the Confederate States shall from time to time order or instruct. Said Secretary shall be appointed by the (President) [CSA Security Council], by and with the advice and consent of the Congress, and shall receive a compensation to be ascertained and regulated by law.
SEC. 2.
Be it further enacted, It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to keep and preserve all bills and resolutions of the Congress having been approved or signed by the President or otherwise become laws, and he shall carefully preserve the originals, and shall, as soon as conveniently may be after he shall receive the same, cause every such law, order and resolution to be published in at least three public newspapers, published within the Confederate States, and shall also cause two printed copies, duly authenticated, to be sent to the executive authority of each State. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep the great seal of the Confederate States, and to make out and record and affix said seal to all civil commissions to officers of the Confederate States, to be appointed by the (President) [CSA Security Council], by and with the advice of the Congress, or by the President alone: Provide, That said seal shall not be affixed to any commission before it is signed by the (President) [CSA Security Council], nor to any other instrument or act without the special warrant of the President, therefore. The said Secretary shall also cause a seal of office to be made for said department, of such device as the (President) [CSA Security Council] shall approve, and all copies of records and papers in said office, authenticated under the said seal, shall be evidence equally as the original record or paper.
SEC. 3.
Be it further enacted, That there shall be in the said department a chief clerk to be appointed by the Secretary, and such other clerks as from time to time may be found necessary, and authorized by the Congress, who shall receive a compensation for their services to be fixed by law; and the Secretary of State and every other person to be appointed or employed in said department shall, before he enters on the execution of his office or employment, take an oath or affirmation well and faithfully to execute the trust committed to him.
SEC. 4.
Be it further enacted, There shall be paid to the Secretary, for the use of the Confederate States, the following fees of office by the persons requiring the services to be performed, except when they are performed for any officer of the Confederate States in a matter relating to the duties of his office, to wit: for making out and authenticating copies of records, ten cents for each hundred words; for authenticating a copy of a record or paper, under the seal of office, one dollar.
SEC. 5.
And be it further enacted, This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. - APPROVED February 21, 1861.
Provisional Government Note: We have no Congress formed as of September 2007, but the Council of 40 serves in a semi legislative capacity. We have no President, and that function is assigned during the interim to the CSA Security Council. The plan of liberation is still being worked which will bring constitutional government to replace the interim measures of the provisional government.
|
