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


officers of the Confederate States, shall be removed
from Office on impeachment for, and conviction of,
treason bribery, or high crimes and misdemeaners
ARTICLE III.
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 Inferior courts, shall hold their
Offices during good behavior, and shall at stated
times, receive for their services a compensation,
which shall not be diminished during their con-
tinuance in Office.
SECTION 2.
/. The judicial power shall extend 10 all cases
arising under this Constitution the laws of the
Confederate States, and treaties made or which
shall be made, under their authority; 30 all cases
affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
consnlS TO all cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdictions 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
titi; between citizens claiming lands under grants
of different States and between State or the citi-
thereof and foreign States citizens or subjects;
but State shall be sued by citizen or subject of
any foreign State.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, ether pub
lie ministers and consuls, 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
parchment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall
be held in the State where the said crimes shall
have been committed; but when not committed
within any State, the trial shall be ut such place
or places as the Congress may by law have directed
SECTION 3.
l. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in levying war against them, or in ad-
herring to their enemies, giving them aid and COM
fort. No person shall be convicted of treason un-
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 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 2.
l. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges aod immunites of citizens in the
several States, and shall have the right of transit
and sojourn in any State Of this Confederacy with
their slaves and other property; and the right of
property in said slaves shall not be thereby i'm
paired
2. A person charged in any State with treason.
felony, or other crime against the laws of shch
State, shall, on demand of the Executive authority
of the State from which he fed be delivered up to
to tbo
crime.
3. No slave other person held 80 service or Ia
Dor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
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 be delivered up on claim
of the party to whom such slave belongs, or to
whom such service or labor may be due.
SECTION 3.
|. Other States may be admitted into this Con-
federacy by vote of two-thirds of the whole House
of Representatives and two-thrds of the Senate
the Senate voting by States but no new State
shall be formed erected within the jurisdiction of
any other State nor any State be formed by the
junction of two or more States, or parts of States
without the consent of the legislatures of the States
as well as of the Congress
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of
and make all needful rules and regulations con-
corning the property Of the Confederate States in
GLIDING the lands thereof
3. The Confederate States may acquire new ter.
rtory and Congress shall have power to lcgislate
and provide governments for the inhabitants of all
territory belonging to the Confederate States lying
within the limits of the several States; and may
permit Them. at such times, and in such manner
as it may by law provide to form States to be ad-
mited into the Coniederacy. In all such territory
the institution of negro slavery as it now exists in
the Confederate States shall be recognized and pro-
tected by Congress, and by the territorial govern
ment and the inhabitants of the several Confede-
rate States and Territories shall have the right to
take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by
them in any of the States or Territories of the Con-
tedeate States.
A. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
State that now is or hereafter may become men,
her Of this Conederacy, republican form of gov
ernment and shall protect each of them against
invasion; and on application of the legislature Tor
of the Executive when the legislature is not in SEES
son) against domestic violence.
ARTICLE Y.
SECTION |.
!. Upon the demand of any three States legally
assembled in their several conventions the Congress
shall summon convention, of all TIE States, to
take into consideration such amendments to the
Constitution as the said States all concur in suggest
ing at the same time when the said demand is made;
and should any of the proposed amedments to the
Constitution &c agreed on by the said convention
voting by States-and the same be ratified by
by the legislatures ofwo-hrds of the several States
or 10y conventions in two-thirds thereof-as the one
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the general convention--they shall thencefor-
ward form part of this Constitution. But no
State shall, without Its consent be deprived of its
equal representation in the Senate.
ARTICLE VI.
!. The Government established by this Constu-
ton is the successor of the provisional Government
Of the Confederate States of America, and all the
laws passed by the latter shall continue in force un-
til the same shall he repealed modified; and all
the officers appointed by the same shall remain in
Office until their successors are appointed and quail
fed, or the offices abolished
2. All debts contracted and engagements entered
into before the adoption Of this Constitution shall
be as valid against the Confederate States under
this constitution as under the Provisional Govern
ment
3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Confed-