Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-16


the rules of the common law.
10. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor ex-
cessive fines be imposed, cruel and unusual
punishments be inflicted.
20. Every law or resolution having the force Of
law shall relate 20 but subject, and that shall
be expressed in the title.
SECTION 10,
| No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance,
or confederation; grant letters Of marque and re-
prisal make anything but gold and silver coin
tender in payment Of debts; pass any bill of at
tainder or post facto law or law impairing the
obligation OF contracts grant any title Of nobility
g No State shall, without the consent Of the Con
gress, lay any imposs or duties on imports or ex-
ports, except what may be absolutely necessary for
executng its inspection laws and the net produce
Of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on i'm
ports exports shall be for the Of the treasury
Of the Confederate States; and all such laws shall
be subject TO the revision and control of Congress
3. No State shall, without the consent of Con
gress, lay any duty Of tonnage except on sea going
vessels, for the Improvement Of its rivers and har
bors navigaed by the said vessels but such duties
shall not conflict with any treaties Of the Confede-
rate States with foreign nations; and any surplus
of revenue, thus derived, SHALL after making such
Improvement be paid into the common treasury
nor shall any State keep troops or ships Of war IN
time of peace enter into any agreement or COM
pact with another State, or with foreign power,
or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in
such imminent danger rs will not admit of delay.
But when any river divides flows through two
or more States, they may enter into compacts with
each other to improve the navigation thereof.
ARTICLE II.
sEcTIoN l.
l. The executive power shall be vested in a Pres
ident Of the Confederate States of America. He
and the Vice President shall hold their offices for
the term Of six years: but shall not be reeligible
The President and Vice President shall be elected
us follows
2, Each State shall appoint, in such manner as
the legislature thereof may direct number of cleo
tors equal TO the whole number of Senators and
Representatives to which the State may be entitled
in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative
or person holding Office of trust or profit under
the Confederate States shall be appointed an cleo
tor.
3. The electors shall meet in their respective States
and vote by ballot for President and Vice President
one of Shom, at least shall not be an iphabtant o.
the same State with themselves they shall name in
their ballots the person voted for as President and
in distinct ballots, the person voted for Ms Vice
President and they shall make distinct lists of all
persons voted for Pres lent, and of all persons
voted for rs Vice President and of the number of
votes for EACH which list they shall sign and certi-
fy, and transmit sealed, TO the government of the
Confederate States directed to the President of the
Senate; the President of the Senate SHALL in the
presence of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, open all the certificates and the votes shall
then DO counted; the person having the greatest
number of votes for President shall be the Presi-
dent. if such number be majority of the whole
number of electors appointed; and if no person
have such majority, then, from the persons having
the highest numbers not exceeding three on the
| list of those voted for as President the House of
Representatives shall choose Immediately, by bal
lot. the President. But in choosing the President
the vote shall be taken by States, the representa-
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for this purpose shall consist of a member or mem
bers from two-thirds of the States and a majority
of all the States shall be necessary to a choice
! And if the House of Representatives shall not
choose President, whenever the right of choice
shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of
March next following, then the Vice President shall
act as President as in case of the death or other
constitutional disability of the President.
A. The person having the greatest number of
votes Vice President shall be the Vice President
if such number be majority or the whole number
of electors appointed, and if no person have mt
Ijorty, then from the two highest numbers the
list the Senate shall choose the Vice President; n
quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirdS
of the whole number of Senators, and majority
of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice
5. But no person constitutionay ineligible to
the office of President shall be eligible to that OF
Vice President of the Confederate States.
6. The Congress may determine the time of choo-
sing the electors, aud the day on which they shall
give their votes; which day shall he the same
/ throughout the Confederate States.
7. No person except natural born citizen of the
Confederate States, citizen thereof at the time
of the adoption of this Constitution, or n citizen
thereof born in the United States prior to the 3Oh
OF December 1860, shall be eligible to the Office of
President; neither shall any person be eligible to
that office who shall not have attained the age of
thirty-hve years and been fourteen years resident
within the limits of the Confederate States as they
may exist at the time of his election.
8. In case of the removal of the President from
Office, Of his death, resignation, or inability to
discharge the powers and duties Of the said office,
the same shall devove on the Vice President; and
the Congress may, by law, provide for the case of
removal DEATH resignation, inability both of the
President and Vice President declaring what officer
shall then act as President, and such officer shall
then act accordingly until the disability be remov-
ed or a President shall be elected.
9. The President shall, at stated times resolve
Tor his services a compensation which shall neither
be increased nor diminished during the period for
which he shall have been elected; and he shall not
receive within that period any other emolument
from the Confederate States or a.y Of them.
10. Before he enters on the execution of his Office
he shall take the following oath or affirmation:
a do solcmny swear Tor affirm that will faith
fully execute the Office Of President o. the Confed-
crate States and will, to the hest OF my ability,
preserve protect and defend the Constitution there
of SECTION 2.
/. The President shall be commander in chief of
the army ana navy of the Confederate States, and
of the MALTA Of the several States when called in
to the actual service of the Confederate States; he
may require the opinion, in writing of the princi-
pal officer in each of the Executive Departments,
upon any subject relating to the duties of their re-
spective offices; and he shall have power to grant
rcprieves and pardons for ofenses against the Con-
tederate States, except in cases of impeachment.
>. lie shall have power 10y and with the edvice
and consent Of the Senate TO make treaties, prov-
ded two-thrds of the Senators present concur; and
he shall nominate, and by and with the consent
and advice of the Senate, shall appoint ambassa-
dors, other public ministers and consus Judges of
the Supreme Court and all other officers of the
Confederate States, whose appointment are not here
in otherwise provided for and which shall be cs-
tablished by law; but the Congress may, by law,
vest the appointment Of such inferior officers, as
they think proper in the President alone, in the
lpnurts of Ia Or N tho heads nf nenartmanfs