Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-04
SECTION 2.

tne actual service the Confeerate States; he may
Ger in each of the Executive DepsrtmeRts uIon suy
Ieaung TO the duties of their respective OH
pardons for offences against tbs Confs5rste sI.tes
| except IN cases of impeachment
and consent of the Senate To msla frs..iss n-SSiS
Cd tWofhIrds of the concur. and be
the Senate shan sae se
public ministers and consuls Judes OF rbe srn---s
Court, and all other officers OF the copfdsrsts sr
whose appointments not herein otherwise uro.
slded for, and which shall be established BY law.
put the Congress may, by law, vest the appointment
OF such inferior officers they think proper The
alone in the courts of Law in the heads
ments, and all persons connected with the diplomat
ic service may be removed from ofice at the plea
sure OF the PRESIDENT. Ali other civil ocers Of ths
Executive Department may be removed at any tin.
by the President, or other appointing power, when
capacity, inecency, misconduct or neglect of duty
and when so removed, the removal shall be reported
to the Senate together with the reasons Therefor.
cies that may happen during the OF the SEN
ate, by granting commissions which shs II expire st
the end OF their next session. but no person rejected
by the Senate shall be reappointed the Ofcs
during their ensuing recess
SECTION B
1. The President shall from time TO time give 10
the Congress information of the state Of the Confe-
eracy, and recommend their consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary and sxpedisnt
Houses, or either of them; and in OF disagree
ment between them, with respect 10 the time Of sd.
Journment, he may adjourn them to such time hs
shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors
and other public ministers; he shall take that
the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commits
sion all the officers Of the Confederate States
SECTION Z.
l. The President, Vice President, and all civil On.
GERS OF the Confederate States shall be removed frU
once on impeachment for, and conviction Of treason,
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemesnors.
ARTICLE III.
ssEcTIoS L,
l. The judicial power of the Confederate States
shall be vested in Superior Court, and in sach
time order and establish. The judges both of tb.
Supreme and Inferior Courts shall hold their ofos.
eeiye for their services q compensation which sb.u
not be diminished during their continuance in once
SECTION 2.
l. The judicial power shall extend TO sll cssss sr
sing under this Constitution the laws of the Confed
crate States, and treaties made or which shall be
made under their authority; 10 an cases anectips
all cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction: ts
controversies to which the Confederate States san
De party; to controversies between two or more
States between State and citizens of another
State where the State is PLAINTIFF between citizen.
Claiming lands under grants of different States and
between State or the citizens thereof and foreign
States, citizens subjects; but no State shall n.
sued by citizen or subject of any foreign STATE
2 In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public
ministers, and eonsuls, and those in which State
shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have oriri
mai jurisdiction In all the other before men.
toned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate i'm
rsdicton, both to law and facts, with excsp
tions and under such regulations, Is the Congress
shall make.
). The trial of all crimes. except in cases of i'm.
peachment, shall be by jury and such trial shan D..
held in .he State where the said crime shall bsy.
been committedi but when not committed within
any State, the trial shall be al such place or nisa
as the congress may by law have directed.
SECTION 3.
l. Treason against the Confederate State. .hsu
consist only IN levying war against them, or in sd
herring to their enemies, giving them aid and com
fort No person shall be convicted Of treason une..
on the testimony of two witnesses to the sam oy-rr
act or on confession in open court
2. The Congress shall have power To dsclsr. ,h.
PuhsnnehI Oh treason, but no sttainder Of TREASON
shall work corruption of blood, forfeiture except
curing the LIE OF the person sttsinted.
ARTICLE W
SECTION /.
l. Full faith and credit shall be given An .sch
State TO the public acts, records md judicial proesd
ings of every other State. And the Congress nav
by general laws, prescribe the manner in which
such acts records, and proceedings shall be proved
and the effect theieof.
SECTION 2
l. The citizens Of each State shall be entitled to
several States and e.Hl G OF eai,iens N shs
and sojourn in any State Of the Confsderacy rith
their slaves and other property; and the 2,gh, -
property IN said slave shall not be thereby i'm
paired.
2. person charged in any State with trs..on
felony, or other crime against the of such STAT.
shall, on demand OF the Executive suthority Of The
state from which he ned, be delivered up be re-
moved TO the State having jurisdiction OF the Grim.
3 No slave or other person held TO service or Ia
Dor in any State or Territory Of the Confederate
States, under the laws thereof escaping or I.vfnr
carried into another, SHALL in consequence of spy
la " regulation therein, be discharged from suci
service or labor; but shall be delivered I'd on claim
OF the party to whom such slave belongs or to whom
such service or labor may be due.
SECTION }.
L. Other States may be admitted into this Con1sd-
eracy by vote OF two-thirds OF the whole Hou.. a =
Representatives, and two-thirds of the senate IA.
Senate voting by States but new state shall h.,
formed erected wi>Hin the jurisdiction OF an,
other State; nor any State be formed by the june
out the of the Legislatures of the Ststss con
cerned as well as of the Congress-
z. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and
make all needful rules and regulations concerning
property Of the Confederate States including the
tory and Congress shall have power 10 iegisst na
provide governments for the inhabitants Of mi tsrri
out the limits of the several States and NAV permit
them, st such times, and in such manner as il nav
the Confederacy. In all such territory the in.titp
ton of negro slavery il exists in the Confed-
crate States, shall be recognized and protected by
congress, and BY the territorial government: and
the Inhabitants Of the several Confederats Stste.
and Territories shall have the right take 20 such
territory any slaves, lawfully held by them in suy
OF the states or Territories of the Confederate
f. The Confederate States shall guaranty to sv.r,
State that now is or hereafter may become . mem.
ber OF this Confederacy, 8 republican form of gov.
ernnent, and shall protect each of them sgsin.s in
yason; and on application of the legislature (or Of
the Executioe when the Legislature is in session.
against domestic violence.
ARTICLE v.
SECTION ].
1. Upon the demand of any three States IeesIIx
sembled in their several conventions the consrsx.
shall summon convention of all the States to rsk.
into consideration such smsndments to the Consti-
tuition the sad States all in suggesting Al
the time when the said demand is made; and should
any of the ,osed amendments to the Constitution
be agreed by the said conyention-vottpe by
the be ratified by the lezisI.furx.
Of two-thirds of the several States, OF by couvsp
tions in twothrds thereof-as the one or the oth,r
mode of ratification may be proposed by the genera
shall thenceforward form = nsrt
Of this Constitution. But no State shall vithout IN,
consent, be deprived of its equal representation in
the Senate.
ARTICLE VI:
j The GOYernuenf