Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-09-20

from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction Of.
treason, bribery, or high crimes and nisdeneancrs
ARTICLEsnL
SECTION }.
\. The Judicial power of the Confederate States
shall be vested in one Superior Court and In such
n time ordain aud establish The Judges both Of
Che Supreme and Inferior courts, shall hold their
lofiices during good behavior and SHALL at stated
times receive for their services n compensation,
which shall not be diminished during their con.
tinnahce in office. ~
4 SECTION Q.
/ !. The judicial power shall extend TO all cases
arising under this Constitution, the laws Of the
Confederate States, and treaties made or which
shall he made, under their authority 10 oil cases
affecting ambassadors other public ministers aud
consuls 10 all cases Of admiralty and maritime
urisdiction to controversies to which the Confede-
rate States shall be a party TO controversies be-
tween two or more States; between n State and
citizens OF another State where the State is plain
TIT between citizens claiming lands under grants
of different States and between State or the citi-
zens thereof and foreign States citizens or subjects
but no State shall be sued by citizen subject of
any foreign State
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other pub
lie ministers, and consuls, and those in which
State shall he party the Supreme Court shall have
original jurisdiction In all the other cases before
mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate
jurisdiction, both as to law and fact with such ex-
iceptions and under such regulations, as the Con-
gress shall make.
3. The trial Of all crimes, except in cases of inn
parchment shall be by jury, and such trial shalt
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
SECTION 3.
|. Treason against the Confederate States shall
Al
herring to their enemies, giving them MD and COM
fort No person shall be convicted of treason un-
ess on the testimony of two witnesses to the same
overt act or on confession in open court.
2, The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment Of treason but no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except
during the life of the person attanted.
ARTICLE ".
SECTION ].
l. Full faith and credit shall be given in each
State to the public acts, records aud judicial pro-
ccedings of every other State. And the Congress
may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in
which such acts records, and proceedings shall be
proved, and the effect thereof
SECTION 2.
/. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges aod immunites of citizens in the
several States and shall have the right of transit
and soiourn in any State of this Confederacy with
their slaves and other property; and the right of
property in said slaves shall not be thereby i'm
paired.
2. A person charged in any State with treason,
4 felony, or other crime against the laws of such
State, SHALL on demand of the Executive authority
of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to
be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the
crime.
3. No slave or other person held 20 service or la
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States under the laws thereof escaping or lawfully
carried into another, shall, in consequence of any
law or 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 or labor may be due.
SECTION 3.
l. Other Slater NAV be admitted into this Con-
federacy by vote OF two-thirds of the whole House
Of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate
the Senate voting by States: but no new State
shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of
any other Sate nor any State be formed by the
junction of two or more States, parts of States.
without the consent of the legislatures of the States
concerned as well as Of the Congress
2. The Congress shall have power 10 dispose Of
and make all needful rules and regulations con-
corning the property of the Confederate States in
GLIDING the lands thereof.
3. The Confederate States may acquire new ter
ritory; and Congress shall have power to legisate
and provide governments for the Inhabitants of all
territory belonging to the Confederate States lying
within the limits of the several States; and NAV
permit them, at such times, and in such manner,
as it may by law provide to form States TO be adj
mitted into the Confectionery In all such territory,
the institution of negro slavery it now exists in
the Confederate States, shall be recognized and pro-
tected by Congress- and by the territorial govern.
ment; aud the inhabitants of the several Confede-
rate 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-
tederate States.
L. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
State that now is or hereafter may become a mem
Der of this Contederacy, republican form of gov
eminent, and shall protect each Of them against
invasion ana on application of the legislature Tor
OF the Executive when the legislature is not in ses-
son) against domestic violence
ARTICLE V.
SECTION /.
!. Upon the demand of any three States legally
assembled in their several conventions the Congress
: shalt summon convention. of all tie States, to
l take into consideration such amendments to the
Constitution the said States all concur in suggest
ing at the same time when the said demand is made;
aud should any Of the proposed amedments to the
Constitution ge agreed on by the said convention
U voting by States-and the same be ratified by
by the gsaures oftwo-thirds of the several States
or by conventions in two-thirds hereof-as the one
or the other mode Of ratification may be proposed
e by the general conyention--tbey shall thenoefor-
ward, form apart offths Constitution. But nc
State SHALL without its consent be deprived Of its
equal representation in the Senate.
, IS ARTICLE VI o
: /. The Government established by this Constitu-
ton is the successor of the provisional Government
# of the Confederate States Of America, and all the
laws passed by the latter shall continue in force
! I'll the same shall be repealed or modified; and all
the officers appointed by the same shall remain il
! office until their successors are appointed and quail
? fed, or the Offices abolished @
: 2. All debts contracted and engagements entered
It into before the adoption of this Constitution shall
= be as valid against the Confederate States under
this constitution as under the Provisional Govern
e ment ..s -lI..lIbA-
i 3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Confed
crate States made in pursuance thereof AMI all trea
It ties made, or which shall be made under the author
/ ity of the land; and the Judges in every State
If shall be bound thereby anything in the eonstitu
e tim or laws of any State to the contrary notwih