Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-31
NEW SERIESMNO. 1918

vote shall then be counted; the person hav,n, ,ha
greatest number of votes for President shall be The
number OF electors appointed and If no persn hsx
such majority, then. from the persons Ia yfny fhe
sss xoea s not sssssdDg three The m
Bu. choosing he Presden the vote sns shs 81
having one vote; quorum for this purpose shan Con-
sist OF member or members from two Thirds of The
suy 70 choice And If the House of
shall not choose President, whenever the riubt cf
choice shall deyoye upon them, before the fourth day
OF March next following then The Vice President snail
act ss President as in OF the death or other
stitutonai disability Of the President.
4. The person having the greate-t number Of votes
number be majority of the whole number of elect
ors appointed: and if person have majority then
shall choose the Vice President; quorum for the pur-
pose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole ber
OF senators, and majority Of The whole number shall
be necessary TO achoice. ss sia1a1 - -
s. No person constitntonaly ineeible to the ofsce
Of President shall be eligible TO that Of Vice President
OF the Confederate States. ffGrla ~lEEl
o. The Congress may determine the time of choosing
the electors, and the day which they shall give the1
votes; which day shall be the same throughout the
z. No person excepta a natural born citizen of the
confederate States, citizen thereof the time Of
the adoption of the Constitution citizen thereof
born in the United States prior 10 the 10th Of
Der, 1850, shall be eligible the Office of President:
neither shall any person be eligible TO that Office who
shall not have attained the age of thirty five years
and been fourteen years resident within the limits
oi the confederate States, as they may exist the
s. In case of the removal Of the President from Of
nee, or OF his DEATH resignation inability dis
charge the powers and duties OF the said ONCE the
same shall devolve on the Vice President and the
gress may, by law, provide for the case OF removal
DEATH resignation, inability both Of the President
ana wee President, declaring what officer shall then
act as PRESIDENT and such officer shall act
until the disability be removed or President shall be
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g. The President shall, at stated times, receive for
MS services compensation which shall neither be in
creased nor diminished during the period for which he
shall have been elected aud he shall not receive with
10 Inae period an other emoument from the Confed-
crate States or any OF them.
TO- Before he enters on the execution OF his Office,
he shall take the following oath affirmation:
90 soiemnly swear (or affrm) that viii faith
fully execute the Office of President of the Confederate
states, and Will, 10 the best of my ability preserve
protect and defend the Consultation thereof"
SECTION e.
l. The President shall be comma nder in chief of
the army and navy Of the Confederate States. and
OF the militia of the several States when called into
the actual service of the Confederate States he NAV
Ger In each of the Executive Departments uton snv
subject relating to the duties of their respective off,
ces; and be shall have power to grant reprisres and
pardons Tor oences against the Confederate States
except in Cases of impeachment. - - :
z de shall have power, by and with the advice
aaa consent oi the Senate, to make treaties. rrov
eo OF the Senator's concur: nd he
shall nominate and by aud with the advice and cor.
sent OF the Senate shall appoint ambassadors other
Puohc ministers and consuls, Judges of the Supreme
Court and all other officers of the Copfderate States
whose appointments are not herein otherwise mr.
yided foT and which shall be established by law;
but the Congress may, by law, the appointment
of such inferior officers, they think proper In the
President alone in the courts Of Law orn the heads
of Departments. = -
3. The principal in each of the Executive Depart
ments and all persons connected with the diplomat
tc service, may be removed from Office Al the nea
OF the President A III other -
Executive Department may be removed at anv tine
by the President, or other appointing power, when
tneH services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty in
capacity inehciency, misconduct or neglect of duty
and when removed, the removal shall be reported
" n p sose'her with the reasons therefor.
cies that happen during the recess of the Sen.
ate, by granting commissions which sha expire al
me emu their ne. sessioni but person rejected
by the Senate shall be re-appointed TO the "a me of
during their ensuing recess.
Section g.
l. The President shall, from time to time, give to
the Congress information of the state the Confd-
eracy, and recommend 10 their consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;
Houses, either Of them; and in case of Disagree
ment between them, with respect to the time of ad
jourpment, he may adjourn them to such time as be
shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors
and other public ministers; he shall take care that
the laws be faithfully executed, and shall cemmis
sion all the officers of the Confederate States .
SECTION 4.
1uo ffesl0ent, vice President, and all civil
cers OF the Confederate States shall be removed fou
Office impeachment for nd conviction Of treason
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
ARTICLE III.
.sEcrToN u
!. The judicial power of the Confederate sta,ez
shall be vested In one Superior Court, and in such
Inferior Courts as the Congress may from time tc
time order and establish. The judges, both of the
Supreme and Inferior Courts shall hold their Office
during good behavior and shall at stated times re-
cefye Tor their services hall
not be diminished during their continuance in Office
- SECTION 2.
l. The judicial power shall extend to all ca ari
sing under this Constitution, the laws of the
crate states, aud treaties made which shah be
made under their authority; TO all cases affecting
ambassadors, other public ministers and consus; tC
all cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to
controversies which the Confederate States shall
be party; to controversies between two or more
States; between State and citizens of another
State where the State is plaintiff; between citizens
claiming lands under grants of different States, and
between State or the citizens thereof and foreign
States. citizens subjects; but no State shall be
sued by citizen or subject of any foreign State
2 In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public
ministers, and consuls, and those in which Sta
shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have origis
nal Jurisdiction. In all the other before neri
toned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate ju:
rsdiction both as to law and facts with such excepE
tions, nd und such regulations, as the Congress
shall make. - 5ttA t- --=s- 'ft- .
3. The trial of all crimes, except in of i'm.
peachment shall be by jury and such trial shall be
held in the State where the said crime shall have
been committed; but when not committed within
any State the trial shall be at such place places
as the Congress may by law have directed.
- SECTION 3. r--
1. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consix only In levying war against them, in ad-
herring TO their enemies, giving them aid and com.
fort person shall be convicted of treason unless
on the testimony Of two witnesses to tho overt
act or on confession In open court. ss:.4
2. The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason, but attainder Of treason
shall work corruption of blood, forfeiture, except
during the life Of the person sttainted.
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l. Full faith and credit shall be given In each
inrs 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 theieof
/ The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges and immunitiss Of citizens in the
and sojourn in any State Of the Confederacy, with
their slares and other property; and the right Of
property In said slave shall not be thereby I'm
paired.
e A person charged in any State with treason.
felony or other crime against the laws Of such Sta
ehali on demand OF the Executive authority of the
STATE from which be fed, be delivered up 20 be re-
moved 20 the having jurisdiction of the crime.
g. No slave or other person held 10 service Ia
bor In any state or Territory Of the Confederate
states under the laws thereof. escaping lawful
carried into another, shall, In consequences Of ans
law or regulation therein, be discharged from such
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