The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-02-21

times to authors and inventors the eXclu-
sive right to their respective writings and
discoveries.
8. To constitute tribunals inferior to
the Supreme Court.
10. To define and punish piracies and
felonies committed on the high seas, and
offences against the law of nations.
IL. To declare war, grant letters OF
marouc and reprisal, and make rules con-
corning captures on land and water.
II. To raise and support armies; but no
anpropriation of money to that use shall
be for a longer term than two years.
IS. To provide and maintain navy.
Il. To make rules for the government
and regulation of the land and naval
forces
is. To provide for calling forth the
militia to execute the laws of the Confed-
cracy, suppress instructions, and repel
invasons.
16. To provide for organizing, arming,
and disciplining the militia, and for gov
crning such part of them as may be en-
plovcd in the service Of the Confederacy,
rescrving to the States respectively the
appointment of the officers, and the au-
thority Of training the militia according
to the discipline prescribed by Congress,
and
II. To make all laws which shall be ne
cessary and proper for carrying into exc
cution the foregoing powers and all other
powers expressly delegated by this Con
stitution to the Provisional Government.
SECTION I.
/. The importation Of African negroes
from any foreign country, other than the
slavcl olding States of the United States,
is hereby forbidden; and Congress is re-
quired to pass such laws as shall effectual-
ly prevent the same.
2. The Congress shall also have power
to prohibit the introduction Of slaves from
any State not member Of this Confedc-
racy.
8. The privilege of the writ of habcas
corpus shall not be suspended, unless
when. in cases of rebellion or invasion,
the public safety may require it.
t. No bill Of attander or cx-post facto
law shall be passed.
5. No preference shall'bc given by any
regulation of commerce or revenue, to the
ports of one State over those Of another (;
nor shall vessels bound to or from one
State be obi ged to enter, clear, OF pay
duties, in another.
6. No money shall be drawn from the
treasury but in consequence of appropria-
ITEMS made by law; and regular state
ment and account Of tie receipts and eX-
penditurcs of all public money shall be
published from time to time.
I. Congress shall appropriate nc money
from the treasury unless it be asked for
by the President or some one of the heads
of Departments, except for the purpose OF
paving it's own expenses and contingcn-
cies
8. No title of nobility shall be granted
by the Confcderacy; and no person hold
ing any office of profit or trust under it,
shall, without the consent of the Con-
gress, accept of any present, emolumcnt,
office, or title of any kind whatever, from
any king, prince, or foreign State.
0. Congrc, IS shall make no laws respcc-
ting an establishment of religion or pro-
hibting the free exercise thereof: or
al ,idgng the freedom of speech, or Of the
p css; or the right Of the people to as
semblc, and to petition the government
for a redress of such grievances as the
delegated powers of this Government may
warrant it to consider and redress.
10. A well-rcgulatcd militia being ne
ccssary to the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.
H. No soldier shall, in time of peace,
be quartercd in any house without the
consent of the owner; nor in time of war,
but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
II. The right Of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and ct
fects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated ; and no war
rants shall issue but upon probable cause,
supported by oath OF affirmation, and par
ticularly describing the place to be search
ed or things to be seized.
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