Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-14

snail DC maze uDQer their auLlOrlLV; 70 all cases
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdiction to controversies to which the Confedo
crate States shall be party; to controversies be-
tween two 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 a State, or the
citizens thereof and foreign States citizens sub
jects; but no State shall be sued by citizen or
subject of any foreign State.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other pub
lie ministers, and cOnsuls and those in which q
Sesteshall be party the Supreme Court shall have
original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate
jurisdiction, both IS to law and fact, with such eI.
ceptiOns, and under such regulations as the Con-
gress shall make.
8. The trial of ali crimes, except in cases of inn
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.
SEC. 81. Treason against the Confederate
States shall consist only in levying war against
them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them
aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of
treason unless the testimony of two witnesses to
the same overt act, confession in open court.
.. 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 attainted.
ARTICLE ".
SECTION III. Full faith and credit shall DO
given in each State TO the public acts records and
judicial proceedings of every other State And the
Congress may, by general laws prescribe the man
ner in which such acts, records and proceedings
shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
SEC. 2-1. The citizens Of each State shall DO
entitled to all the privileges and immunities Of citi
in the several States, and shall have the right
of transit and sojourn in any State in this Conede
racy, with their slaves and other property and the
right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby
impaired.
A person charged in anv State with trea-
son. felony other crime against the laws of such
State, who shall fee from justice, and be found in
another State shall, demand ofthe Executive
authority of the State from which he fed be de-
vered up to be removed to the State having juris-
dictiOn of the crime.
3. No slave or other person held to service or
labor in any State Territory of the Confederate
States, under the laws thereof escaping or lawfully
carried into another, shall, in consequence of any
law 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 labor NAV be due
SEC. 81 Other States may be admitted into
this COnfederacy by vote of two-thirds of the
whole House of Representatives and twO-thirds of
the Senate, the Senate voting by States but
State shall be formed erected within the jurisdc-
by the junction of two or States, or parts Of
States, without the consent of the Legislatures of
the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
>. The Congress shall have power TO dispose of
and make all nccdful rules and regulations concern
ing the property of the Confederate States, nclud-
ing the lands thereof.
3. The Confederate States may acquire new ter
ritOry, and Congress shall have power to legslate
and provide governments for the inhabitants of all
territory belonging to the Confederate States lying
without the limits of the several States and may
permit them, at such times, and in such manner
it may by law provide, 10 form States to be ad-
mited into the COnfederacy In all such territory,
the institution of negro slavery it 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 COnfeder-
ate States and Territories, shall have the right to
take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by
them in any Of the States Territories of the
Confederate States
4. The Confederate States shall guarantee to
every State that now Is or hereafter may become
a member of this Confederacy republican form
Of Government, and shall protect each Of them
against invasion; and on application of the Legis-
lature Tor Of the Executive when the Legislature
is not in session. against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
SECTION IL. Upon the demand of any three
States legally assembled in their several conven-
tons, the Congress shall summon q convention of
all the States to take into sideraton such amend
ments to the Constitution as the said States shall
in suggesting at the time when the said de-
mand Is made and should any of the proposed
amendments o the Constitution be agreed on by the
said cOnventiOn-vOtng bv States-and the same
be ratified by tn" Legislatures Of two-thirds of the
the several States, by conventions in twO-thirds
thercOf-aS the one or the other mode of ratifca-
ton may be proposed by the general convention
they shall thencefOrward form a part of this
Constitution. But no State shall without its con-
sent, be deprived Of its equal representation in the
Senate.
ARTICLE VI.
l. The Government established by this Consti-
tuition is the successor Of the Provisional Govern
ment Of the Confederate States of America and all
the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force
until the same shall be repealed or modified and
all the officers appointed by the same shall remain
in Office until their successors are appointed and
qualified, or the offices abolished
All debts contracted and engagements entered
into, before the adoption of this Constitution shall
be valid against the Confederate States. under
this Constitution, as under the Provisional Gov
eminent.
3. This Constitution and the laws Of the Confed-
crate States, made in pursuance thereof, and all
treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
authority of the Confederate States, shall be the
supreme law Of the land and the Judges in every
State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Con-
stitution laws of any State to the contrary not
withstandinC.
4. The Senators and Representatives before men,
toned, and the members Of the several State Leg
islatures and all executive and Judicial Offices both
Of the Confederate States and of the several States
shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support
this Constitution; but religious test shall ever
be required qualification to any office or public
trust under the Confederate States
). The enumeration, in the Constitution Of GER
tain rights, shall not be construed to deny or dis
parage others retained by the people of the several
States.
6. The powers not delegated to the Confederate
States by the Constitution nor prohibited BY it to
the States are reserved TO the States, respectively,
to the people thereof.
ARTICLE VII.
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