Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-29

officers Of the Confederate States, shall be removed
from office on impeachment for, and CONVICTION OF,
treason, bribery, or high crimes and misdemeaners.
u l-AAsA ARTICLE H. tNgA HA|
st SECTION /. . - ..
l.. The judicial power of the Confederate States
shall be vested in one Superior Court, and in such
Inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to
time ordain and establish. The Judges. both of
the Supreme and Interior courts, shall hold their
offices during good behavior, andsshall, at stated
times, receive for their services a compensation
which shall not be diminished during their con.
FINANCE in Office.
B -Hs E SECTION 2. FN ~NF,
]. The judicial power shall extend to all cases
arising under this Constitution the laws of the
Confederate States aud 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
jurisdiction; 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
It'd; between citizens claiming lands under grants
of different States, and between State or the oit-
zens thereof and foreign States citizens or subjects
but no State shall be sued by citizen or subject Of
any foreign State.
lie ministers, and cOnsus and those in which a
State shall be party 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 ex-
ceptions, and under such regulations, as the Con-
gress shall make.
3. The trial of all crimes except in cases of i'm
peachment shall he by jury and such trial shall
be held in the State where the said crimes shall
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within any State, the trial shall be at such place
or places as the Congress may by law have directed
SECTION 3.
/. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in levyng war 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 on the testimony Of two witnesses TO the same
overt act or 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 attainted.
ARTICLE ".
SECTION ].
|. 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
SECTION Q.
l. The citizens Of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges aod immunites of citiqens in tho
several States and shall have the right Of transit
and soiourn in any State of this Confederacv with
their slaves and other property; and the right of
property in said slaves shall not be thereby inn
paired
2. A person charpedin anv State with treason
feloay, or other crime against the laws of snch
State shall on demand of the Executive authorit,,
IF the State from which he fed he delivered nm IN
be removed to the State having Jurisdiction or tbo
crime.
3. No slave or Other ners,n haid 10 serv;co or In
bor in any State mr. Terr;torv of tba Co,co,Iora,o
States under the laws thereof escanin, or Iayvf,IIv
carried into another shall in consaonsDco Of o,y
law or repplation tberoir ho 1oohori,aI e.,
service or labor bnt shall no delivore5 ~, an on
of the marty 10 whgty, snch slave bolonas or r.
whom such service or labor ma, ba dro
epcrtoy a
Other State, NAV he admitted int, ,l,;, ro,
federocv bv vote of tvo-thirds nf tbevboe Hon.,
of Renresentatives and thirds of tha Sonota
the senate voting Inv stotos. hnt No ron, Co.,
shall ha c,rued or eroc,od y;tbin ,L i,r.Jo,;,, ~
any other STATE: nor anv State be formed INV III,
iunction of two or MORO Statos or r,rts Of So
,ythour tho copsspt of tho ioosIotrr,s F tLo SEE
CONCERNED as we'll ne nf tha Congress
. Tho Congress shall have no,yor 70 ,,isnoso. ~
and mako ali nea1fnI r,Ioe and ro,,,I,,ion -
cerning the property of the Confedersta States in
lcludine the lands thereof
2 the Confadcroto States nav ooo,;ro ,o,y to.
ritorv. and Copgre,s sholI I'm 90 ro,,a+ 80 Io,;Iat
and nrcyde Cro,-ernrnents for tio inLoL;,tor ~
territory be6norino IN the Confadarato Sat-.
within The limits of tLe savar,I states. and yat
hermit them ot sncb Times an5 in sncb n,onnay
as II NAV Inv law nrovide 10 form states 70 be od
mittcj into tho Confederacv In all snch torri,or,
tbo i,sti,rtion ~ c,,r sI,, o - -,
the Corfede,ate Statss shall be ,e,on;,od o nta
tccted nv Cororess and NV tho territor,aI ro,,ern
mept. and The inbahi,anis of tho soreai r. e.la
rnte states and ,arritoriAs shall bova ,bo r;rh, =
t,lc 70 snch tcrritorv onv slaves lawfully bed IN
tbem in onv If the States or Ter3to,iss cS The ron
fade,ate states
A Tho Confederate Stotos sbo1I c.,orort, t, o,or,
ctate that now Is or bnre,ftar nv hoco,,,a ,o,,;
hsr nf ,his CorCederoc, ro,,hi;oa,, C,no, 81 a,,
eminent and shall nyntect Zach Of tbcr, a,aiOs
Invasion, and ON annlication of the Ieg;sI,,nr 10
Of tho Executive whom The Iooislotnro e NOT In "a.
sionI sgoinst domestic Violence - 'N'
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