Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-23
poll U T0oAL.
CONSTITUTION
OF THE

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.
We. tho people of the Confederate States
each State getting in its sovereign and indie
pendent character, in order to form perma-
nent Federal Government, establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos
terty-invoking the favor and guidance of
Almighty God-7do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the Confederate States Of
America.
ARTICLE
SEcTfoN AL legislative powers herein
delegated shall be vested in Congress of the
Confederate States, which shall consist of a
Senate and House of Representatives.
SECTION 2.--1. The House of Reprcscn-
tatiyes shall be composed of members chosen
every second year by the people of the scvc-
raj States; and the electors in each State shall
be citizens of the Confederate States and
have the qualifications requisite for electors of
the most numerous branch of the State Leg
islaturc; but no person of foreign birth, not
citizen of the Confederate States, shall be
allowed tosvotc for any officer, civil or politi-
cal, State or Federal.
2. No person shall be n Representative
who shall not have attained the age of twen-
tyive years, and be citizen of the Confed,
Si"uN LttSo, anu WHO SUall uOI, Wilcu clCCtpu,
be an inhabitant of that State in which he
sllall be chosen
g. Representatives and direct taxes shall
be appointed among the several States, which
nay be included within this Comfederacy, ac.
colding to their respective numbers, Which
shall be determined by adding to the whole
number of free persons, including those bound
to service for term of years, and excluding
Indians not taxed, threc-ffths of all slaves
The actual enumeration shall be made within
three years after the first meeting of the Con
gross of the Confederate States, and within
every subsequent term of ten years, in such
manner as they shall, by law direct. The
number OF representatives Shall not exceed
one for every fifty thousand, but each State
sh''il-have at least one Representative aud
until such enumeration shall be made the State
of South Carolina shall be entitled to choose
six--thc State of Georgia ten-the State of
Alabarna nine the State of Florida two-the
State of Mississippi scyen-the State of Lou
isiana six, aud the State of Texas six,
4. When vacancies happen in the repre-
scntation from any State, the Executive au-
thority thereof shall issue wrils of election
to fiji such vacnhcics '
s. The House of Representatives shall
choose their Speaker and other officers, and
shall have the sole power of Impeachment, OK
cept that any judicial or other, Federal officer
resident and acting solely within the limits Of
aay State, may be impeached by vote of
twothirds of both branches of the Lesisla-
turc thereof -
SECTION 81 The Scratc of the Confed.
4 crate States shall be composed of two Soma
TORS from each State, chosen for six years by
the Legislature thereof, at the regular session
next Immediately preceding the conimcuce-
o'cnt OF the term OF service and each Sena-
torshall have ono vote.
2. Immediately after they shall be Assem-,
bled, in consequence of the first election they
Shall be divided as equally as may be into
three clssses. The seats of the Senators of
the first class shall be vacated at the eXpira-
tion of the second year of Che second class
at theexpration of the fourth year; and Of
the third class at tho expiration of the sixth
year; 80 that one third iGay be chosen every
second year., and If vacancies happen by re-
siighation, or otherwise, during the recess of
the Legislature of any State, the Executive
thereof may make temporary appointments
until the next meeting Of the Legislature,
which shall then fill such vacancies re
80. No person shall be Il Senator who shall
not have attained the age Of thirty years, and
who shall not. when elected, be an inhabitant
of the State for which lio; shall be chosen.
A. The Vice President Of the Confedefate
States shall besPfesideht Of the Senate, but
shall have n9 vote, unless thcy be equally dl-
yiaeA l'tmiaN tf@ btt#ah iT'gs58ttt ~
6.'Thc Senate shall choose their othor Off,
GERS and also President pro .ten,pore in
theabsehce Of the RVicePreside6t, or when.
hoshall exercise the office of President Of the
Coafe iefate States tiiooaa ~. Vfi,# Y ti'
g. The Senate shall have the solo power to
try all impeachments, Whotfsitting for that
purpose, they sitall be on oath OF afTirma
tion. When uhe President of the Cohfede.1
rate Statcs'is tried, the Chief Justice shall
preside; aud nc person she'll be convicted
without the concurrence of two thirds OF the
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