Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

aud secure the blessings OF liberty 10 ourselves ant
orr postcrity-invoking th6favor and guidance o
Almighty God--do ordain and establish this Consti
tuition for the Confederate States Of America.
ARTICLE |.
r- SECTION /.
All legislative powers herein delegated shall be
vested in n Congress Of the Confederate States
which shall consist of Senate and House of Re-
representatives.. as- eH
SECTION ,.
|. The House of Representatives shall he compos
ed Of members chosen every second year by the
people of the several States; and the electors in each
State shall be citizens of the Confederate States and
have the qualifications requisite for electors of the
most numerous branch of the State Legislature; but
no person of Foreign BIRTH not a citizen Of the Con-
federate States shall be allowed to vote for any Of
fcer, civil or political, State or Federal.
2. No person shall be a Representative, who shall
not have attained the age of twenty-five years and
be citizen of the Confederate States, and who shall
not, when elected be an inhabitant of the State in
which he shall he chosen,
3. Representatives and Direct Taxes shall be APP
portioned among the several States, which may be
included within the Confcderacy, according to their
respective numbers. which shall be determined by
adding the whole number of free persons, including
those bound to service for term Of years, and ex-
GLIDING Indians not taxed three-ths of all slaves.
The actual enumeration shall be made within three
Confederate States, aud within every subsequent
term of ten years in such manner they shall, by
law direct. The number of Representatives shall
not exceed one for every fifty thousand, but each
State shall have at least one Representatives and
until such enumeration shall be made the State of
South Car dina shall be entitled to sixthe State of
Georgia en-the State of Alabama nine--the State
of Florida two-the State Of Mississippi seven-the
State Of Louisiana six, and the State o. Texas six.
bopnan in tho in
from any Safe, the Executive authority thereof
shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
g. The House of Representatives shall choose their
Speaker and other officers and shall have the sole
power of impeachment, except that any judicial or
other federal officers resident and acting solely with
in the limits of any State may be impeached by n
vote of two-thrds Of both branches of the Legsla-
ture thereof.
J. The Senate of the Confederate States shall be
composed of two Senators from each State chosen
for six years by the legislature thereof at the regu
lar session next Immediately preceding the COM
mencement of the term of service, and each Sena-
tor shall have one vote.
O. Immediately after they shall be assembled in
consequence of the first election, they shall be d-
vided as equally as may be into three classes. The
seats of the Senators of the first class shall be
Gated at the expiration of the second year Of the
second class at the expiration Of the fourth year and
of the third class at the expiration Of the sixth
year. SO that one-third may be chosen every second
year; and II vacancies happen by resignation or
otherwise, during tie recess of the legislature of
any State, the Executive thereof may make tempo
rary appointments until the next meeting Of the Lee
pisiature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
g. No person shall be a Senatorwho shall nothave
attained the age of thirty years, and be citizen of
the Confederate States; and who shall not, when
elected be an nhabitant of the State for which he
shall be chosen.
a The Vice President of the Confederate States
shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no
vote unless they be equally divided.
g. The Senate shall choose their other officers !;
and also President pro tempore in the absence of
the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the
office of President of the Confederate States.
6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all
impeachmeuts When sitting for that purpose, they
shall be on oath or affirmation. When the Presi-
dent of the Confederate States is tried, the Chief
Justice shall preside; and no person shall be con-
victed without the concurrence of two-thrds of the
number present.
7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not
extend further than to removal from Office, and dis
qualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor,
trust or profit, under the Confederate States but
the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable
and subject to Indictment trial, judgment and pun
ishment according TO law.
SECTION a.
l. The time, places and manner of holding cleo
lions for Senators and Representatives shall he pre-
scrhcd in each State by the legislature thereof sub
ieCt to the provisions of the Constitutions but the
Congress may, at any time, by law, make or alter
such regulations, except as to the times and places
of choosing Senators
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in ev-
cry yeor; and such meeting shall be on the first
Monday in December, unless they SHALL by law, APP
point,a different day.
SECTION 8.
/. Each House shall he the Judge of the elections
returns and qualifications Of its own members and
a majority of each shall constitute quorum to do
husincss but n smaller number may adjourn from
dav TO day, and may be authorized TO compel the
attendance Of absent members in such manner and
under such penalties as each House may provide.
@ Each House may determine the rules of its
proceedings punish its members for disorderly con-
duct and with the concurrence of two-thirds of the
whole number, eXpcl member.
g. Each House shall keep Journal of its pro.
ceedngs, and from time to time publish the same
excepting such parts as may in their judgment re-
quire secrcsy, and the yeas and nays of the mem
beers OF either House, any question, shall at thu
desire of one-6tth Of those present. be entered OF
the journal.
! 4. Neither House, during the session of Congress
SHALL without the consent Of the other adjourn to
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that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
! SECTION 6.
J. The Senators and Representatives shall receive
compensation for their services, to be ascertaneC
by law, and paid out of the treasury of the Con
federate States. They shall, in cases except trea
son, and breach of the peace, be privileged from
arrest during their attendance at the session O
their respective Houses, aud in going TO and return
ling from the same and for any speech debate il
either House, they shall not be questioned in any
other place,
2. No Senator or Representative SHALL during
the time for which he was elected, be appointed t,
any civil office under the authority of the Confede
rate States, which shall have heen created or tn,
cmolumonts whereof shall have been increase,
during such time; and no person holding any otiic
under the Confederate States shall be a member O
either House during his continuance in Office. Blu
Congress may 10y law, grant 10 the principal Office
in each Of the Executive Departments scat upol
the floor Of either House, with the privilege Of dis
cussiug any measure appcrtainingto his department