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The subject of the paper is legal status, competence, order of formation, composition andactivities of the highest representative (legislative) body – the Congress of ConfederateStates of America (CSA).The purpose of article is to identify peculiarities of organization and work of the Congressof Confederate States of America.The methodological basis of research is formal legal and historical analysis of provisions ofthe permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, other legislative acts of the Congressof the CSA.The results and scope of application. The study of the history of the United States by analyzingthe status and history of development of the higher representative body of the unrecognizedstate formations of the American South the second part of Nineteenth centurycontributes to a better understanding of the evolution of American constitutionalism, possiblevariants of its development, the ways and forms of development of legislative authoritiesas the primary (main) way to implement popular sovereignty in the New time.Constitutional and legal traditions of the organization and activities of the representative(legislative) authorities of the USA have been fully inherited in the organization, structureand activities of the Supreme legislative authority of the Confederate States of America(CSA).Conclusions. The legal status of the CSA Congress, its powers, organization activities demonstrateda high degree of continuity of such institutions and relationships in the U.S. andallows the Supreme representative (legislative) authority of the Confederate States to berelatively effective in working on as part of a shared state mechanism of CSA. ; В настоящей статье автор анализирует особенности правового статуса, компетенции, порядка формирования, состава и деятельности высшего представительного (законодательного) органа Конфедеративных Штатов Америки (КША) на основании положений постоянной Конституции КША, иных законодательных нормативных актов Конгресса.