Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-01

from once on Impeachment Tor, antconviction OF,
treason, bribery, or high crimes and iisdemeaners.
ARTICLE H.
SECTION 1.
] !. The judicial power of the Confderate States
shall be vested in one Superior Courtland in such
! Infcror Courts as the Congress may bonn time to
time ordain and establish. The judtes, both Of
the Supreme and Inferior courts. shah hold their
Offices during good behavior and shah, at stated
tunes. receive for their services cempensation,
which shall not be diminished during their cou
tinuanee in Office.
! l. The judicial power shall extend to all cases
arising under this Constitution, the laws Of the
Confederate States, aud treaties made or which
shall be made, under their authority to all case
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers aud
consus to all cases of admiralty and maritime
Jurisdiction; TO controversies TO which the ConrAe-
rate States shall be party; TO controversies be
tween two or more States; between a State and
citizens of another State where the State Is plain
tiff between citizens claiming lands under grants
of different States and between State or the cit-
zens thereof and foreign States citizens or objects
but no State shall be sued by citizen subject of
any foreign State.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other pub
lie ministers, and consus, and those In which
State shall he aparty, the Supreme Court shall have
original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate
Jurisdiction both to law and fact with such ex-
ceptions, and under such regulations, the Com
gress shall make.
3. The trial of all crimes except in cases Of i'm
parchment, shall be by jury, aud snch trial shall
be held in the State where the said crimes shall
have been committed; hut when not committed
within any State, the trial shall be at such place
or places as the Congress may by law have directed
SECTION B.
l. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in lpxyn1 WA sf In, II
herring 70 their enemies giving them aid and com
fort No person shall be convicted of treason un-
ess on the testimony of two witnesses to the same
overt act, or confession in open court.
2. The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason bat no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except
during the life of the person attainted
ARTICLE Nv.
SECTION J..
1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each
State to the public acts records and judicial pro-
ceedings 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 2.
]. The citizens of each State shall be entitled 10
all the privileges aod immunties of citizens in the
several States, and shall have the right of transit
and soiourn in any State of this Confederacy with
their slaves and other property and the right of
property in said slaves shall not be thereby i'm
paired.
2. A person charged in any State with treason
felony, or other crime against the laws of such
State, shall, on demand of the Executive authority
of the State from which he fed be delivered up to
be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the
crime.
3. No slave other person held 20 service or la
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States under the laws thereof escaping or lawfully
hall in ~
law or regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim
OF the party to whom such slave belongs, or to
whom such service or labor may be due.
SECTION 3.
l. Other States may be admitted into this Con-
federacy by vote of two-thrds of the whole House
of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate
the Senate voting by States; but no new State
snail be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of
any other State; nor any State be formed by the
junction of two or more States, or parts of States
"''ho" thv synS1"' e .he legislatures of the States
concerned as well as of the GUus r-ss.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose OF
and make all needful rules and regulations con-
ceruiug the property of The Confederate States in
Guiding the lands thereof
3. The Confederate States may acquire new ter
ritory and Congress shall have power TO iegisate
and provide governments for the inhanlahts OF All
terri..ary y0ureJsrrte States, lying
within the limits of the several States; and may
permit them, at such times, aud in such manner
rs it may by law provide, to form States to he ad-
United into the Contederacy. In all such territory,
the institution of negro slavery us it now exists in
the Confederate States shall be recognized and pro-
tected by Congress and by the territorial govern
ment; and the inhabitants of the several Coniede-
rate States and Territories shall have the right Ia
take 10 such territory any slaves lawfully held by
them in any Of The States Territories Of the Con-
fedefate States.
A a l..
State that now Is or hereafter may become mem
Der of this Conederacy, republican form Of gov
lernment, and shall protect each of them against
invasion; an on application of the legislature Tor
of the Executive when the legislature is not in ses-
sion) against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
SECTION |.
|. Upon the demand of any three States. legally
assembled in their several conventions the Congress
shall summon convention, of all the States TO
take into consideration such amendments TO the
Constitution as the said States all concur in suggest
ing at the same time when the said demand Is made;
aud should any of the proposed amedments 10 the
Constitution ge agreed on by the said convention
voting by States--and the same be ratified hy
by legislatures oftwothrds of the several States
or by conventions in two-thrds thereof-as the one
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the general convention-they shall thencefor-
ward form part of this Constitution But no
State SHALL without its consent, be deprived of its
equal representation in the Senate.
ARTICLE vi.
| l. The Government established by this Constitu-
ton is the successor of the provisional Government
of the Confederate States of America, and all the
laws passed by the latter shall continue in force
til the same shall be repealed or modified; and all
the officers appointed by the same shall remain in
Office until their successors appointed and quail
| fed, or the offices abolished.
! 2. All debts contracted and engagements entered
into before the adoption of this Constitution shall
be as valid against the Confederate States under
this constitution as under the Provisional Govern
fment.
3. This Constitution and the laws of the Confed
crate States made in pursuance thereof Gni all tired
ties made, or which shall be made under the autho
ity of the land; and the Judges in every 50
shall be bound thereby, anything in the consb-
ton or laws of any State TO the contrary notwl- S
standing.
A The Senators and REPRESENTATIVES hefore en- /,