Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-09-06


from Office on impeachment for and conviction of
treason bribery OF high crimes AID misdemeaners.
l ARTICLE III.
| SUCTION l.
| L. The judicial power Of the Confederate States
shall be vested in one Superior Court, and Ia such
Inferior Courts the Congress may from time 10
time ordain and establish The Judges, both OF
the Supreme and Inferior courts, shall hold their
offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated
times, receive for their services a compensation
which shall not be diminished during their con-
tinuance in Office.
/ SECTION 2.
l. The judicial power shall extend to all cases
arising under this Constitution, the laws of the
Confederate States, and treaties made or which
shall be made under their authority; TO all cases
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
consus to all cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdiction; 10 controversies to which the Confede-
rate States shall be a party TO controversies be-
tween two or more States between State and
citizens of another State where the State is plain
tiff between citizens claiming lands under grants
Of different States and between n State or the cit-
thereof and foreign States citizens subjects
bat State shall be sued by a citizen or subject Of
any foreign State.
O. In all cases affecting ambassadors other pub
| lie ministers and cOnsus, and those in which q
State shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have
original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned the Supreme Court shall have appellate
Jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such
1ceptions, and under such regulations as the Con-
gTess shall make.
g. The trial of all crimes except in cases of i'm
parchment 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 directed
SECTION g.
l. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in levying against them, or in adj
herring to their enemies, giving them aid and COM
fort No person shall be convicted of treason I'M
ess on the testimony of two witnesses to the same
overt act or on confession in open court.
| 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except
during the life Of the person attainted
! ARTICLE w.
| SECTION /. ..H
l. 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 to
all the privileges aod immunities of citizens in the
several States and shall have the right of transit
and sojourn 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. 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. .....l. I....T
8. No slave or other person held 10 service or la
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States under the laws thereof escaping or Lawfully
arNfa kill
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 B.
| l. Other State, may be admitted into this Con-
federacy by vote of twothirds of the whole House
of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate
the Senate voting by States; but no new State
shall 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
without the consent of the legislatures of the States
concerned as well as of the Congress
! 2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of
and make all needful rules and regulations con-
corning the property of the Confederate States in
GLIDING the lands thereof.
B. The Confederate States may acquire new ter
ritory; and Congress shall have power to legisate
and provide governments for the inhabitants Of all
territory belonging to the Confederate States lying
permit them, at such times, and in such manner
as it may by law provide to form States to be ad-
mitted into the Contederacy In all such territory,
the Institution of negro slavery 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 Confede-
rate States and Territories shall have the right to
take to such territory any slaves, lawfully held by
them in any of the States or Territories of the Con-
federate States.
! A. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
State that now is or hereafter may become a mem
Der of this Contederacy, republican form of gov
eminent, and shall protect each of them against
invasion; and on application of the legislature Tor
of the Executive when the legislature is not in SEES
sion) against domestic violence
ARTICLE V.
]. SECTION /.
l. Upon the demand of any three States legally
assembled in their several conventions the Congress
shall summon a convention, of all the States, to
| take into consideration such amendments to the
Constitution the said States all concur in suggest
ing at the same time when the said demand is made;
and should any of the proposed amedments to the
Constitution ge agreed on by the said convention
| voting by States-and the same be ratified by
by the legislatures oftwo-thrds of the several States
or by conventions in twothirds 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.
/. 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 modified; aud 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
ment.
g. This Constitution, and the laws of the Confed-
crate States made in pursuance thereof and all trea
ties made, which shall be made under the author
| ity Of the land; and the Judges in everysState
shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitu
ton or laws of any State to the contrary notwith-
standing.
L. The Senators and Representatives before men