Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-10-18

officers Of the Confederate States shall be removed
from Office on impeachment for, and conviction Of
treason, bribery, or high crimes and Insdemeaners.
ARTICLE III
sBcrfoN l.
1. The judicial power Of the Confederate States
shall be vested in one Superior Court and in such
Inferior Courts as the Congress may rom time 10
time ordan 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 compensation,
which shall not be diminished dtring Their con-
tinrance IA office.
sEcFtoN D.
/. The Judicial power shall extend to al cases
arising under this Constitution, the laws of Tho
Confederate States, and treaties made or which
shall be made, under their authority 10 all CASE
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
conshls to all cases of Admiralty and maritipI'
Jurisdiction; to controversies 70 which the Confede
rate States shall be party to controversies be
tween two or more States; between State ant
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 subjects
but no State shall be sued by citizen or subject
any foreign State.
O. In all cases affecting ambassadors other pub
lie ministers, and consuls, and those in which
State shall be aparty, the Supreme Court shall hav
original jurisdiction In all the other cases befor
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellat
jurisdiction, both to law and fact with such ex
cepions, and under such regulations, as the Cor
gress shall make,
3. The trial Of all crimes, except in cases Of IN
parchment, shall be by jury, and such trial sha
be held in the State where the said crimes sha
have been committed but when not committe
within any State, the trial shall be at such plaC
or places as the Congress may by law have drectec
| sEoTIoN g.
| /. Treason against the Confederate States sh6
consist only in levying war against them, or in ad
herring to 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 sam
overt act, or ON confession in open Court
2. The Congress shall have power to declare til
punishment of treason, but no attainder of trcaso
shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture excep
during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE ".
sEcTIoN /.
/. Full faith and credit shall be given In eacl
State to the public acts records and judicial pro
ceedings of every other State. And the Congress
may, by general laws prescribe the manner II
which such acts, records, and proceedings shall b.
proved and the effect thereof
1 sEcT1oN g.
l. The citizens of each State shall be entitled &,
all the privileges aod immunities of citizens in tn
several States and shall have the right of transi
and sojourn in any State Of this Confederacy, wit
their slaves and other property; and the right c
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 sue
State, shall, on demand of the Executive authort
of the State from which he fed be delivered up I,
be removed to the State having jurisdiction Of III
crime.
3. No slave or other person held 20 service or IL
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederat
States under the laws thereof escaping or lawful
carried into another, shall, in consequence of an
law or regulation therein, be discharged from SUI
service or labor but shall be delivered up on cls
of the party to whom such slave belongs or !.
whom such service or labor may be due. |
Il SECTION g.
| /. Other States may be admitted into this OF
federacy by a vote of two-thirds of the whole II gu
of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate
: the Senate voting by States but no new Sta
shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction
ANY other State; nor any State be formed by Il
junction of two or more States, or parts of Stato
without the consent of the legislatures of the Stat
concerned as well as of the Congress
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose
and make all needful rules and regulations col
corning the property Of the Confederate States, il
, cludlng the lands tncreCf.
3. The Confederate States may acquire new te
ritory and Congress shall have power to legisla
and provide governments for the inhabitants of 4
territory belonging to the Confederate States lyr
: within the limits of the several States; and lna
permit them, at such times and in such mannl
as it may by law provide, to form States to be
mitted into the Confederacy. In all such territor
the institution of negro slavery as it now exists 4
the Confederate States, shall be recognized and pr
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ment; and the inhabitants of the several Confea
rate States and Territories, shall have the right
take to such territory any slaves, lawfully held
them in any Of the States Territories of the Coz
federate States.
4. The Confederate States shall guaranty to ever
. State that now is or hereafter may become men
Der of this Contederacy republican form of go
ernn1ent and shall protect each of them again
invasion; and on application of the legislature e
of the Executive when the Legislature is not in SCI
sion) against domestic violence.
/, ARTICLE "
r| SECTION l.
! l. Upon the demand of any three States, legal
assembled in their several conventions, the Congre
: shall summon n convention of all the States,
= take into consideration such amendments to Il
Constitution as the said States all concur in sugges
ing DIT the same time when the said demand is mad
and should any of the proposed amedments to IL
: Constitution &c agreed on by the said conventic
!. voting by States-and the same be ratified |
by the legislatures oftwo-thirds of the several State
OF by conventions in two-thirds thereof-as the OF
or the other mode of ratification may be propose
by the general convention-they shall thencefo
ward form part Of this Constitution. But I
State shall, without its consent, be deprived of
: equal representation in the Senate.
= ARTICLE VI
l. The Government established by this Constit
ton is the successor of the provisional Governme
u of the Confederate States of America and all Il
laws passed by the latter shall continue in force
i til the same shall be repealed or modified; and
e the officers appointed by the same shall remain
/ office until their successors appointed and qua
!, fed, or the offices abolished.
; 2. All debts contracted and engagements enter,
Il into before the adoption of this Constitution sa
: be as valid against the Confederate States und
this constitution as under the Provisional Cover
ment.
: 3. This Constitution, and the laws of the COME
crate States made in pursuance thereof and all ire
u ties made, or which shall be made under the autho
!, ity of the land and the Judges in every Sta