Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-02

number OF electors appointed and if no person have
sehsss Inen lom sne persons having ,hs
those voted for as President, the House Of Represen
tasises shan choose mIeaia.sy by ballot, ths Pres
taken by States the representation from each State
having one vote; quorum for this purpose shall
sist of member members from two thirds Of the
States, and majority of all the States shall be neces
sary to choice And the House OF aPresentatires
choice shall devoive upon them before The fourth day
OF March next following then the Vice President shall
act as President in of the death other
| stitutional disability of the President. 49,,
4. The person having the greatest number of votes
as Vice President shall be the Vice President such
number be majority OF the whole number of elect
ors appointed: and no have majority, then,
from the two highest numbers the list the senate
pose shall consist OF twofhirds of the whole number
Of Senators, and majority Of the whole number shall
s. No person constitutionaly ineligible to the Office
of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President
g. The Congress may determine the time OF choosing
the electors and the day which they shall give
votes; which day shall be the same throughout the
Confederate States l4
z. No person except a natural born citizen Of the
Confederate States citizen thereof at the time of
the adoption of the Constitution, citizen thereof
born in the United States prior to the 10th of Decem-
ber 1850, shall be eligible the Office of President
shall not have attained the age of thirty-fve years
and been fourteen years resident within the limits
Of the Confederate States as they may exist at the
time OF his election.
g. In of the removal of the President from Of
hce, or of his death, resignation, inability to dis
charge the powers and duties Of the said office, the
same shall devolve ON the Vice President; and the c
gress may, by law, provide for the Of removal,
DEATH resignation, inability President
and vice President declaring what officer shall then
act President and such officer shall accordingly
until the disability be removed President shall be
electeds rf
9. The President SHALL at stated times receive for
his services compensation which shall neither be In
creased nor diminished during the period for which he
shall have been elected and he shall receive with
IN that period any other smoument from the Confed
crate States, or any Of them.
10. Before he enters the execution Of his office,
he shall take the following oath or affirmation:
81 do solemniy swear (or affirm that will faith
uy execute the Office OF President Of the Confederate
States, and WILL to the best of my ability, preserve,
protect and defe i'd the Constitution thereof"
SECTION 2.
l. The President shall be commander-in- chief of
the army and navy of the Confederate tates, and
of the militia of the several States when called into
the actual service of the Confederate States he
require the opinion, in writing of the principal OFF,
Ger in each of the Executive Departments upon any
subject relating to the duties of their respective off,
ces; and he shall have power to grant repreves and
pardons for offences against the Confederate States,
except in cases of Impeachment
2. He shall have power by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, make treaties provid
ed twothirds of the Senator's concur and he
shall nominate, and by and the advice and con-
sent of the Senate shall appoint ambassadors, other
public ministers and consuls Judges of the Supreme
Court and all other officers of Confederate States
whose appointments are not herein otherwise pro-
vided Tor, and which shall be established by law;
but the Congress may by law, the appointment
OF such inferior officers they think proper in the
President alone, in the courts of law
of Departments ~
8. The principals in each of the Executive Depart
ments and all persons connected with the diplomat
c service, may be removed from office at the plea
of the President All other civil officers Of the
Executive Department may be removed at any time
by the President, or other appointing power when
their services unnecessary, dishonesty in
capacity inefcency, misconduct or neglect of duty;
and when removed, the removal shall be reported
/ to the Senate together with the therefor
L. The President shall have power to fill all
ha drrip tla sla
ate, by granting commissions which sha IL expire
the end of their next session; but person rejected
by the Senate shall be re-appointed to the same oc
during their ensuing recess.
I SECTION 3.
L. The President shall, from time to time give to
the Congress information of the the Confed
eracy, and recommend to their consideration such
measures he shall judge necessary and expedent;
he may, on extraoI dinary occasions convene both
Houses, or either of them; and in of disagree
ment between them with respect to the time of ad-
journment, he may adjourn them to such time he
and other public minister's he shall take care that
the laws De faithfully executed and shall commis-
sion all the officers of the Confederate States.
SECTION 4.
l. The President, Vice President and all civil Off.
GERS of the Confederate States shall be removed from
office on impeachment for, and conviction Of TREASON
/ bribery, or other high crimes and nisdemeanors.
ARTICLE III.
/ SECTION u -....-..
I. The judicial power of the Confederate States
Inferior Courts the Congress may from time to
time order and establish The judges both of the
supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices
during good behavior, and SHALL stated times re-
ceive for their services compensation which shall
not be diminished during their continuance in Office
| s-f r-ft - SECTION 2. = f.l-.s fs5ii
/. The judicial power shall extend to all cases ar.
sing under this Constitution the laws of the Confe
crate States, aud treaties made or which shah be
made under their authority; to all cases affecting
all cases OF Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
controversies to which the Confederate States shall
| be party; to controversies between two or more
States; between a, State and citizens of another
State where the State is PLAINTIFF between citizens
claiming lands under grants of different States and
between State the citizens thereof and foreign
States, citizens subjects; but State shall be
In ali cases afecti9g smbasssdorss
ministers, and consuls and those in which State
shall be party the Supreme Court shall have ories
nal jurisdiction. In all the other before msnS
toned, the supreme Court shall have appellate ius
rsdicton, both to law and facts, with exceps
t,ons, ana ahaer sueh reguatiens, as the Congress
g. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of i'm.
held in the State where the said crime shall have
been committed; but when not committed within
any State, the trial shall be at such place places
as the Congress may by law have directed. --.f
! f4-f.-t SECTION 3. f..-.l7. .,s=t ,-. 81
l. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only In leyying war against them, or in ad.
fort No person shall be convicted of treason unless
on the testimony of two witnesses to the overt
| act, or on confession in open court.
2 The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason, but attainder Of treason
shall work corruption of blood, forfeiture, except
during the life of the person attainted.
/ -- f-.,.. ARTICLE " 7, ,,l--- ,-lfg
+ 1880 SECTION - sF5. --..7l
t. l. Full faith and credit shall be given in each
State the public acts records md judicial proceed
| ings 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 theieof. . go !.
l. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges and immunties of citizens in the
several States, and shall have the right Of transit
and sojourn in any State of the Confederacy, with
their Slaves and other property; and the right of
i property in said slave shall not be thereby i'm
= q. person charged In any Stats with treason,
felony or other 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
moved State having Jurisdiction of the crime.
g. No slave or other person held to service or la
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederste
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 ne delivered up claim
of the party to whom such slave belongs to whom
/ such service or labor may be due. ~
i e1lHf fss-seHh sEcrIos g. = =
T. aother States may be admitted into this o. sed-
eracy by of two thirds of the whole Hosse
and two-thirds of the Senate, the
Senate voting by States but new State shall be
4 formed or erected visin the jurisdiction of any
other State; norany State be formed by the juno
tion of tw q States parts of States, with
ont of the legislatures of the States