Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-06-21


officers Of the Confederate States shall be removed
from office on impeachment for, and conviction Of,
treason, bribery or high crimes and misdepeaners.
ARTICLE III
sECTIoN /.
I 1. The Judicial power of the Confederate States
shah lie vested in one Superior Court and ia such
Inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to
time ordain and establish. The Judges both of
the Supreme and Inferior courts shall hold their
Offices during good behavior and shall, ut stated
I times receive for their services a compensation,
(which shall not be diminished during their con.
tinuance in Office.
SECTION 2.
! /. The judicial power shall extend to all 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
affecting ambassadors other public ministers and
consulS to all cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdctioI to controversies to which the Confede-
rate States shall be party; to controversies be-
tween two or more States; between State and
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 subject of
any foreign State.
| q In all cases affecting ambassadors other pub
lie ministers and consuls, and those in which a
State shall be aparty, 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
ceptions, and under such regulations as the Con-
gress shall make
! g. 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 place
or places as the Congress may by law have directed
SECTION g.
! l. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in levying against them, or in ad-
herring to their enemies, giving them aid and COM
fort No person shall be convicted of treason I'M
ess the testimony of two witnesses to the same
overt net, 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 attained.
ARTICLE ".
| SECTION /.
l. Full faith and credit shall be given in each
State to the public acts, records and judicial pro-
ceedings 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
o." SECTION 2.
l. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges aod immunties of citizens in the
several States and shall have the right of transit
and sojourn 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,
felony, or other crime against the laws of such
State shall on demand Of the Executive authority
of the State from which he fed, be delivered up to
be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the
crime.
3. No slave or other person held 70 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 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 States may be admitted into this Con-
federacy by vote of two-thrds of the whole House
of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate
the Senate voting by States; but no new State
shall be formed erected within the jurisdiction OF
any other State; nor any State be formed by the
junction Of two or more States or parts of States
without the consent of the legislatures of the States
concerned as well as of the Congress.
O. The Congress shall have power to dispose o.
and make all needful rules and regulations con.
GLIDING the lands thereof.
g. The Confederate States may acquire ter
rtory and Congress shall have power to legislate
and provide governments for the Inhabitants of al
territory belonging to the Confederate States lying
within the limits of the several States and may
permit them, at such times, and in such manner
as ii may by law provide TO form States TO be ad
mitted into the Confederscy. In all such territory
the institution OF negro slavery it 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 Confede
rate States and Territories shall have the right tC
take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by
them in any of the States or Territories of the Con
federate States.
4. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
State that now is or hereafter may become mem
Der of this Confederacy, republican form of gov
ernment and shall protect each of them against
invasion; and on application of the legislature (oi
of the Executive when the legislature is not in ses
sion) against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
1 SECTION /.
]. Upon the demand of any three States legally
assembled in their several conventions the Congress
shall summon a convention, of all the States, Il
take iEto consideration such amendments TO the
Constitution as the said States all concur in suggest
ing at the same time when the said demand is made
and should any of the proposed amedments to the
i OOHStlVutOn ge dgreeu On ny tnt shlu coiNcntlOl
/ voting by States-and the same be ratified by
by the legislatures oftwo-hrds of the several States
or by conventions in twO-thirds thereof-as the ont
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the general convention--they shall thencefor
ward form a part of this Constitution. But NJ
State shall, without its consent be deprived of it
equal representation in the Senate.
i ARTICLE VI.
!. The Government established by this Constitu
ton is the of the provisional Government
of the Confederate States of America, and all thu
laws passed by the latter shall continue in force un
til the same shall be repealed or modified; and al
the officers appointed by the same shall remain il
office until their successors appointed and quail
fed, or the Offices abolished
i IAN debts contracted and engagements entered
into before the adoption of this Constitution shall
be as valid against the Confederate States unde
this constitution as under the Provisional Govern
! ment
/ 3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Oonfed
crate States, made in pursuance thereof and all trea
ties made, or which shall be made under the author
I ty of the land; and the Judges in every STATE