Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-30
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the actual service OF the Confederate States: he NAV
require the opinion in writing. of the principal ON.
subject relating 10 the duties OF their resrtiye o.
ees; and he shall have power grant reprieyes md
pardons for offences against the Conferrate State-
| except in OF impeachment
| :. He shs II have power, by and with the advice
ana consent o1 the Senate 10 make treaties, provid-
ed two-thlrds OF the Senators and he
shall nominate, and by and with the advice and con-
sent OF the Senate, shah appoint ambassadors other
pnolc ministers ana consus, Judges of the Supreme
Court, and all other officers of the Confederate States
whose appointments are not herein otherwise pr,s-
Nided for, and which shall be established by law;
but the congress may, by law, the appointment
OF such inferior officers they think proper the
President alone the courts If Law or in the heads
| of Departments
). The principal in each of the Executive Depart
ments and all persons connected with the diplomat
ic service, may be removed frum office the plra
of the President All other civil officers OF the
Executive Department may be removed a any time
| by the President, other appointing power, when
their services unnecessary, dishonesty in
capacity inefcieney, misconduct neglect of duty;
and when 50 removed the removal shall be reported
10 the Senate, together with the therefor.
T. The President shall have power hll ali
cies that may happen during the of the Sem
ate by granting eonnliss ons which sha expire at
The END OF their next session; bui person rejected
by the Senate shall be re-appoinIed 10 the same oics
during their ensuing recess.
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l. The President shall, from time time give 10
the Congress information OF the OF the Cor a.
eracy, and recommend TO their consideration SKA
measures he shall judge necessary and expedi.af-
he may, ON extraoI dInary occasions, convene hs;k
II dl-ase
ment between them with respect to the time OF sa-
Journment, he may adjourn them such time e hs
and other pubiic ministers; he shall take ihst
me laws be faithfully executed, aud shall com ss
sion ali the officers OF the Confederate States.
SECTION 4.
l. The President, Vice President and all civil oss.
Gers OF the Confederate States shall be removed roL
ONCE on impeachment for and conviction oi, tre,oE
bribery, OF other high crimes and nlis,ie
ARTICLE III.
sECIIoN /.
I. The judicial power of the Confederate s,s,..
shall be vested IN one Superior Court, in such
Inferior Courts the Congress may from time 4,
time order and establish. The Judges both Of III
Supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold their ofo-.
during good behavior, and shall stated times re-
ceive their services a compensation which shau
not be diminished during their continuance Office
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l. The judicial power shall extend 10 all cases srs
sing under this Constitution the laws the Cuntei
crate States, and made or which shall =.
made under their authority; To all cases an.-cting
ambassadors, other public ministers consus; 10
all of admiralty maritime Jurisdiction: 70
controversies which the Confederate States shall
be a party; to controversies between two or NOR.
States; between a state and citizens of anoTb.1
State where the State Is plaintiff; between citizens
claiming lands under grants OF different States, snS
between State OF the citizens thereof, and foreign
States, citizens OF subjects; but State sha ie
sued 10y citizen or subject OF any foreign Stan
2 In all cases affecting ambassadors, other ,Lllc
minister's and consuls, and those in which ,tsus
shall be party, the Supreme Court II have -
nal jurisdiction. In all the other cases before Is
lafa
riadicton, both to law and facts with such exer
tions' and under such regulations, the Congress
shall make.
). The trial of all crimes except in cases Of N
peachment, shall be by jury, and trial shs h
held IN The State where the said crime shall asve
peeh committed; but when not committed Wi iria
any State the trial shall be such place or pl.sss
as the Congress may by law have directed.
SECTION 8.
1. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in ieVying war against then in ad-
herring to their enemies giving them aid and COM
tort No person shall be convicted of treason unle,-
ON the testimony of two witnesses 10 the same oyet
act, or on confession in open court.
Z The Congress shall have power TO declare the
punishment OF treason, but no sttsnder of treason
shall work corruption of blood, forfeiture exceut
during the life oi the person attainted.
ARTICLE ".
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i Full faith and credit shall be given in each
ihss Oh 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 theieof.
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/. The citizens of each State shall be entitled 10
all the privileges and immunties of citizens in the
several States, and shall have the right OF transit
and sojourn iii any State OF the Confederacy win
their slaves and other property; and the right of
property IN said slave shall not be thereby I'M
paired.
,. person charged in any State with treason.
felony, or other crime against the laws such State
shall, on demand Oh the Executive authority the
State from which he fed, be delivered up to be re-
moved TO the State having jurisdiction the crime
j. No slave OF other person held service or Ia
bor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States, under the laws thereof escaping or lawfully
carried into another, shall, in Consequence of sny
law or regulation therein be discharged from such
service labor; but shall be delivered up on claim
OF the party 10 whom such slave belongs 10 whom
such service or labor may lie due.
SECTION 5.
l. Other States may be admitted into this Canfad
eracy by vote of two-thirds of the whole House of
Representatives. and rwo-thirds of the Senate tls
Senate voting by States; but new Stat. shall h.
formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any
other State; nor any State be formed by the iunc-
tiOn of two or more States, parts IF States with
out the consent OF the Legislatures of the con-
cerned well as of the Congress.
. The Congress shall have power TO dspose of and
make all needful rules and regulations concerning
the property Of the Confederate States including the
lands thereof.
s. The Confederate States may acquire new terri
tory; and Congress shall have power legslate and
belonging the Confederate States living with
out the limits of the several Stafes and may permit
them, at such times, and in such manner Is il NAV
by law provide, 10 form States admitted iuto
the Con1ederacy- In all such territory the nstitu.
tion OF negro slavery exists in the Confed
crate States, shall be recognized and Protected a..
Congress, and by the territorial governments. and
the Inhabitants of the several Confederate s,s,s.
and Territories shall have the right 10 take to such
territory any slaves, wful1y held by them In anv
of the States Territories of the Confs.srats
States.
l. The Confederate States shall guaranty N av.-x
State hat now is or hereafter may became men,
Der of this Confederacy, republican form of gov.
vasion; and application the legjslanre Tor OF
the EXecutiOe when the legislature il in sss-ion1
against domestic violence.
APTyrrry