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The Provisional Confederate States Congress, for a time the legislative branch of the Confederate States of America, was the body which drafted the Confederate States Constitution, elected Jefferson Davis as Provisional Confederate States President, and designed the first Confederate flag. Unlike the later bicameral Confederate States Congress, the Provisional Congress consisted of only one house and its members were referred to as deputies and delegates. The Congress was first organized as the Montgomery Convention, which marked the formal beginning of the Confederate States of America. Convened in Montgomery, Alabama, the Convention organized a provisional government for the Confederacy and created the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. It opened in the chambers of the Alabama Senate on February 4, 1861. On February 8, the Convention adopted the Provisional Confederate States Constitution, and so became the first session of the Provisional Confederate Congress.〔Caplan, p. 57.〕 John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845), served as a delegate from Virginia in the Provisional Confederate States Congress until his death in 1862. ==Sessions== * First Session February 4, 1861 – March 16, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama * Second Session April 29, 1861 – May 21, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama * Third Session July 20, 1861 – August 31, 1861 in Richmond, Virginia * Fourth Session September 3, 1861 (''called'') in Richmond, Virginia * Fifth Session November 18, 1861 – February 17, 1862 in Richmond, Virginia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Provisional Confederate States Congress」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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