Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-10


crate States and will to the best of my ability pre-
serve protect ard defend the Constitution thereof
Sec. I'll The President shall be commander-in-
chief of the army and navy of the Confederate
States and of the militia of the several States when
called into the actual service of the Confedarota
States he mag require the opinion in writing of the
principal officer in each of the Executive DEPART
ments, upon any subject relating to the duties of
their respective offices; iand he shall have power TO
grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the
Confederate States, except in cases of impeach>
ment.
He shall have power. by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, to make treaties proyi
ded two thirds of the Senators present concur and
he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors
other public ministers and consols, Judges of the
Supreme Court, and all other officers of the Confe
crate States. whose appointments are not herein
otherwise provided for, and which shall be estab-
lished by law, but the congress may by law. vest
the appointment OF such Inferior officers, they
think proper IN the President alone in the courts
of law, or in the heads of Departments.
3. The principal officer Tin each of the Executive
Departments, and all persons connected with the
diplomatic service, may be removed from office at
the pleasure OF the President. All other civil Off
GERS OF the Executive Department may be removed
at any time by the President, or other appointing
power, when their services are unnecessary or for
dishonesty, incapacisy, ineffciency misconduct or
neglect of duty; and when so removed the removal
shall be reported to the senate, together with the
reasons thereof
4 The President shall have power to fill all vacsn
cies that may happen during the recess of the SEN
ate, by granting commissions which shall expire at
the end of their next session. but person rejected
by the senate shall be reappOinted to the office
during their ensuing recess.
SEC. 81. The President shall from time to time
give the Congress information of the state of the
Confederacy, and recommend to their consideration
such measures as he shall judge necessary and ex-
pedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, con>
vene both Houses or either of them; and in case of
disagreement between them, with respect to the
time of adjournment he may adjourn them to such
time as he shall think proper, he shall receive am
bassadors and other public ministers; he shall take
that the laws be faithfully executed and shall
commission all the officers of the Confederate States
SEC. Al ThetPresident, Vice President and all
civil officers of the Confederate States shall be re-
moved from Office on impeachment for, and con-
viction of, treason bribery, or other high crimes
and misdeameanors.
ARTICLE III.
SEC /. The judicial power of the Confederate
States shall be vested in one Superior Court and in
such Inferior Court as the Congress may from time
to time Ordain and establish. The Judges, both of
the Supreme and Inferior courts shall no b 4ir
offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated
times receive for their services a compensation
which shall not be diminished during their contnu-
ance in office.
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 at
fecting ambassadors. other public ministers and
consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maratime
Jurisdiction; controversies to which the Confed-
crate States shall be party; to controversies be-
tween two more States; between State and
citizens of another State where the State plaintiff
between citizens claiming lands under grants of DIFF
ferent States and between a State or the citizens
1c
no State shall be sued by citizen subject of any
foreign State.
2. In all oases affecting ambassadors, other public
ministers, and eOunsus, and those in which State
shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have ORR
ginal jurisdiction. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate
jurisdiction, both to law and fact with such ex
ceptions, and under such regulations as the Con-
gress shall make.
3. 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 places as the
Congress may by law have directed.
SEC. 81. Treason against the Confederate States
shall consist only in levying against them, in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and
fort. No person shall be convicted of treason I'M
less on the testimony Of two witnesses to the same
overt act, confession in open court.
2. The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment OF treason, but no attander OF treason
shall work corruption of blood, forfeiture, ex-
cept during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE w.
SEC IL Full faith and credit shall be given in
each State to the public acts. records and judicial
proceedings of every other State And the Con-
gress may, by general laws prescribe the in
which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be
proved. and the effect thereof
SEC al. The citizens of each State shall be en-
titled TO all the privileges and mmunities of citizens
in the several States and shall have the right of
transit and sOourn in any State of this Confederacy
with their slaves and other property; and the right
of property in said slaves shall not be thereby
paired
.. A person charged in any State with treason,
felony, or other crime against the laws of such
State who shall flee from Justice, and be found in
another State shall, on demand of the Executive
authority of the State from which he fed be de-
lvered up to be removed to the State having uris-
dction of the crime.
g. No slave or other person held TO service orfla-
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States under the laws thereof, escaping lawfully
carried into another. SHALL IN consequence of any
law regulation therein, be discharged from such
service labor but shall be delivered up claim
of the party to whom such slave belongs, or to
whom such service or labor may 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
State shall be formed erected within the jurisdic
ton of any other State nor any State be formed
by the junction of two more States, or parts of
States without the consent of the legislatures of
the States concerned as we'll as of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of
and make all needful rules and regulations concern
ing the property of the Confederate States including
the lands thereof.
3. The Confederate States may acquire new ter
ritOry; and Congress shall have power to legislate
and fha pbahi cofu
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 as
it may by law provide, to form States to be admit
ted into the Confederacy In all such territory the
institution of negro slavery as 1t 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 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 Con-
federate States.
4. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
State that now is or hereafter may become q mem
Der of this Confederacy, Republican form of gov |
eminent, and shall protect each of them against in
vasion; and on application of the Legislature, or
of the Executive, when the Legislature is not in |
session, against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V
SEC IL. Upon the demand of any three States |
legally assembled in their several conventions, the /
Congress shall summon convention of all the States,
to take into consideration such amendm6 MT to the
Constitution the said States shall concur in sug-
costing at the time when the said demand IL made:
and should any of the proposed amendments to the
Constitution be agreed on by the said convention
voting by States-and the same be ratified by the
legislatures of two thirds of the several States, or
,y conventions in two-thirds thereof-as the one or
he other mode of ratification may be proposed by
he general convention they shall thenceforward
orm part of this Constitution But no State shall
without its consent be deprived of its equal repre-
entaton in the Senate.
ARTICLE VI.
l. The Government established by this Constitu-
ion is the successor of the Provisional Government
# the Confederate States of America and all the
passed by the latter shall continue in force I'M
il the same shall be repealed modified; and all
he officers appointed by the same shall remain in
flee until their successors appointed and quail
fed, or the offices abolished.
2. All debts contracted and engagements entered
nto before the adoption of this Constitution shall
e as valid against the Confederate States under
his Constitution as under the Provisional Govern