Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-21

tia to execute the laws of the Confederacy,
= suppress Instructions, and repel invasion
16 To provide for organizing, arming,
and discipliniug The militia, and for govern
ing such part of shem as may be employed
in the service of the Confederacy, reserving
to the States respectively the appointment
of the officers, and the authority of training
the militia according to the discipline pre-
scribed by Congress: and
II. To make all laws which shall be ne
cessary and proper for carrying into execu-
tion the foregoing powers and all other
powers expressly delegated by this Constitu-
tion 20 the Provisional Government.
SECTION 7.
l. The importation of African negros
from any foreign country other than the
slaveholding States, is hereby forbidden
and Congress is required to pass such laws
as shall effectualIy prevent the same.
2. That Congress shall also have power
to prohibit the introduction of slaves from
any State not member of this Confedera-
cy.
90 8. The privilege of the writ Of Habeas
Corpus shall not be suspended unless, when
in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public
safety may require it.
T. No Bill of Attainder, or ex post facto
law, shall be passed.
s. No preference shall be given, by any
regulation of commerce or revenue, to the
ports of one State over those ofsanother &:
, nor shall vessels bound to or from one State
be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in
another.
6 No money shall be drawn from the
treasury, but in consequence Of appropria-
tions made by law; and a regular state
uent and account of the receipts and ex-
penditures of all public money shall be pub
lished from time to time.
7. Congress shall appropriate no money
from the treasury, unless it be asked for
by the President or some one of the heads
of Departments except for the purpose Of
paying its own expenses and contingencies
8. No title Of nobility shall be granted
by the Coufederacy and no persons hold
!, ing any Office of profit or trust under it.,
shall without the consent of the Congress,
accept of any present, emolumeut, Office,
or title of any kind, whatever, from any
king, prince or foreign State.
g. Congress shall make no law respect.
ing an establishment of religion or prohib-
iting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom Of speech, or of the press !;
or the right of the people peaceably to az
semble, and to petition the government for
redress of such grievances as the delega.
ted powers of this Government may warrant
it to consider and redress
10. A we'll regulated militia being neces.
sary to the security of a free State, the
right cf the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.
II. No soldier shall, in time of peace,
be quartered in any house without the
consent of the owner nor in time of war,
but in manner to be prescribed by law.
-. The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated and no warrants shall
issue but upon probable cause, supported by
oath or affirmation, and particularly de-
scribing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized.
l3. No person shall be held to answer
for capital or otherwise Infamous crime,
unless on presentment of indictment Of a
grand jury, except in cases arising in the
land or naval forces, or in the militia, when
in actual service in time of war or public
danger; nor shall any person be subject for
the same offence to be twice put in jeopar-
dy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled,
in any criminal case, to be witness against
himself; nor deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor
shall private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.
ID. In all criminal prosecutions, the ac-
cused shall enjoy the right to speedy and
public trial, by an impartial jury Of the
State and district wherein the crime shall
have been committed, which district shall
have been previously ascertained by law,
and to be informed Of the nature and cause
of the accusation to be confronted with the
witnesses against him; to have compulsory
process for obtaining witnesses in his favor
and to have the assistance of counsel for
his defence.
Is. In suits at common law, where the
value in controversy shall exceed twenty dol
lars, the right of trial by jury shall be pre-
served and no fact tried by jury shall be
otherwise re examined in any court of the
Confederacy, than according to the rules Of
the common law.
l6. Excessive bail shall not be required,
nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and
unusual punishments Inflicted.
II. The enumeration, in the Constitu-
tion, of certain rights, shall not be constru-
ed to deny Or disparage others retained by
the people.
IS. The powers not delegated to the
Confederacy by the Constitution, nor pro-
hibited by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people.
10. Thejudicial power of the Confederacy
shall not be construed to extend to any suit
in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted
against one of the States of the Confederacy,
by citizens of another State, or by citizens
or subjects of any foreign State.
SECTION s.
l. No State shall enter into any treaty,
alliance, or confederation; grant letters of