Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-02-23

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lie ministers, or consuls ito all cases OF
admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;-to
controversies to which the United States
shall be party TO controversies between
two or more states :-between ctizets OF
different states ;-between citizens of the
same state claiming lands under grants OF
different states, and between a state or the
citizens thereof, and foreign states, citi-
zens, or subjects.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors,
other public ministers, and consuls, and
those in which state shall be party, the
supreme court shall have original jurisdic-
ton. In all the other cases before mem
toned, the supreme court shall have appel
late Jurisdiction, both as to law and fact,
with such exceptions, and under such reg
ulatons as the Congress shall make.
8. The trial of all crimes, except in ca
SEES of impeachment, shall be by jury; and
such trial shall be held in the state where
the said crimes shall have been committed;
but when not committed within any state,
the trial shall be at such place or places
as the Congress may by law have direct
ed.
SECTION III. L. Treason against the
United States shall consist only in levying
war against them, or in adhering to their
enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
2. No person shall be convicted of trea-
son unless on the testimony of two wit
nesses TO the same overt act, or confession
in open COURT
3. The Congress shall have power to
declare the punishment of treason, but no
attander of treason shall work corruption
of blood, or forfeiture, except during the
life of the person attained.
ARTICLE ",
Miscellaneous.
), SECTION I. |. Full faith and credit
shall be gwen in each state to the public
acts, records, and judicial proceedings Of
every other state. And the Congress may,
by general laws, prescribe the manner in
which such acts, records, and proceedings
: shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
SECTION II. /. The citizens of each
state shall be entitled to all the privileges
and immunities Of citizens in the several
states.
2. A person charged in any state with
treason, felony, or other crime, who shall
flee from justice, and be found in another
state, shall, on demand of the executive
authority of the state from which he f1ed,
be delivered up, to- be removed to the state
having jurisdiction of the crime.
3. No person held to service or labor in
one state, under the laws thereof, escaping
into another, shall, in consequence of any
law or regulation therein, be discharged
from such service or labor, bot shall be de-
livered up on claim of the party to whom
such service or labor may be DUE
SECTION III. l. New states may be
admitted by the Congress into this union:
but no new state shall be formed or erect
ed within the jurisdiction Of any other
state; nor any other state be formed by
the junction Of two or more. states, or
parts of states, without the consent Of the
legislatures of the states concerned, rs
well as of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to
dispose of and make all needn't rules and
regulations respecting the territory or 9TH
er property belonging to the United States;
and nothing in this Constitution shall be
SO construed as to prejudice any claims Of
the United States, or Of any particular
state.
SECTION Nv. ]. The United States
shall guaranty to every state in this Union
a republican form of government, and
shall protect each Of them against inya-
sion; and on application of the legislature,
or of the executive (whon the legislature
cannot be convened,) against domestic yio-
lence.
ARTICLE V.
Of AmendmSnts.
!. Congress, whenever two-thirds Of
both Houses shall deem il necessary, shall
propose amendments TO this constitution:
or on tho onnI;ca;;on 20 IN I;I .