Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-29
CONSTITUTION.
aANfh OFTHE tNJtf ~
Confederate States of America,

Confederate states Of America.
We, the people Of the Confederate States, each
State acting in its sovereign and independent char
acter, in order TO form permanent federal govern
ment establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility
and secure The blessings of liberty TO ourselves and
our Notwithstanding the favor aud guidance oil
Almighty God-do ordain and establish this Consti-
tuition for the Confederate States Of America.
ARTICLE l.
| SECTION l.
| An legislative powers herein delegated shah be
vested in a Congress Of the Confederate States,
which shall consist Of Senate and House Of Re-
presentatives.
SECTION 2.
/. The House Of Representatives shall ne 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 citizen Of the Con-
federate States, shall be allowed to vote fer any Of
fcer, civil or political, State or Federal.
2. No person shall be Representative, who shall
not have attained the age of twenty-five years. and
he citizen of the Confederate States and who shall
not when elected be an inhabitant of the State in
which he shall be chosen.
3. Representatives aud Direct Taxes shall be ap-
portiuned among the several States, which may be
included within the Confederacy, 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-fhs Of all slaves.
The actual enumeration shall be made within three
years after the first meeting Of the Congress Of the
Confederate States and within every subsequent
term of ten years in such 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 Representative; and
AZ, oil ba mad ne
South Carolina shall he entitled to six-the State of
Georgia ten-the State of Alabama nine-the State
of Florida two-the State of Mississippi seven-thc
State Of Louisiana SIX and the State Of Texas six.
4. When vacancies happen in the representation
from any Safe the Executive authority thereof
shall issue wrts of election to fill such vacancies.
| g. The Houseof Representatiyessha 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 a
vote of two-thirds of both branches of the Legsla
ture thereof
SECTION g.
| l. The Senate of the Confederate States shall be
composed of two Senator's 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.
2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in
consequence of the first election. they shall he d-
vded as equally as may be into three classes The
seats of the Senators of the first class shall be va
Gated at the expiration of the second year; Of the
second class al the expiration of the fourth year and
of the third class at the expiration Of the sixth
year. so that one-thrd may be chosen every second
year; and if vacancies happen by resignation or
ether wise during Il recess of the legislature of
any State the Executiv4 thereof may make tempo
rary appointments until the next meeting of the Lc
gsiature which shall then Gil such vacancies.
g. No person shall he Senator who shall nothave
attained the age of thirty years, and be citizen of
the Confederate States and who shall not. when
elected, be an inhabtant 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.
5. The Senate shall choose their other officers
and also a President pro tempOre in the absence of
the Vice President, when he shall exercise the
Office of President of the Confederate States.
g. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all
impeachments 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-
viced without the concurrence of twothirds of the
number present.
| T. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not
extend further than to removal from office and dis
| quhlnCatlOn 10 nOlu anu elllOy huy Oh HOHOI
| trust or profit under the Confederate States bNt
the party convicted SHALL nevertheless be liable
aud subject to Indictment trial, judgment and pun
ishment according 10 law
| SECTION 4.
! |. The time, places and manner of holding cleo
tons for Senators and Representatives shall be pre-
scrbed in each State by the legislature thereof sub
ect to the provisions Of the Constitution; but the
lCongress may at any time, by law, make or alter
m tho tnps and nlncp,
OF choosing Senators.
g The Congress shall assemble at least once in ev
ery yeor; and such meeting shall be on the frs
Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, ap
point different day.
SECTION 5.
l. Each House shall be the Judge of the elections
returns and qualifications of its own members, ant
. a majority Of each shall constitute quorum TO d,
business but a smaller number may adjourn from
day to day, and may be authorized to compel tn
) attendance Of absent members in such manner AM
under such penalties rs each House may provide.
p g. Each House may determine the rules of it
moceedngs, punish It's members for diSorderly con
duct and, with the concurrence Of twothirds Of tn
whole number, eXpel member.
3. Each House shall keep a journal Of its pro
ceedings, aud from time TO time publish the same
excepting such parts rs may in their Judgment Re
quire secresy, and the yeas and nays of the mem
bers of either House. on any question: shall At tn
desire of one-ffth of those present be entered o
the journal.
A. Neither House. during the session Of Congress
SHALL without the consent Of the other adjourn ia
more than three days, nor TO any other place tina
that in which the two Houses shall be sitting,
SECTION g.
:, |. The Senators and Representatives shall rccev
a compensation for their services, to be aSCcrtane
= 10y law, and paid out of the treasury of the Cor
e fedcratc States. They SHALL in cases, except treG
J. son, aud breach of the peace, be privileged iror
: arrest during their attendance at the session
II their respective Houses and in going to and return
II ing from the same; and for any speech debate
T. either House. they shall not be questioned in IN
other place
~ ,. No Senator or Representative shall, durin
~ the time for which he was elected, be appointed
d any civil Office under the authority of The Conted
s rate States which shall have been created, or Il
N emoluments whereof shall have been increase
l. during such time and no person holding any Off,
DC under the Confederate States shall be member
lp either House during his continuance ia office 3D.