Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-06-14


ARTICLE H.
SECTION l.
~ The judicial power Of the Confederate States
shall be vested In one Superior Court and in such
Inferior Courts the Congress may from time 10
time oriain 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 to all cases
arising under this Constitution, the laws .of the
Confederate States, and treaties made or which
shall be made, under their authority; TO all cases
affecting ambassadors other public ministers and
consuls to all CAGES Of admiralty and maritime
Jurisdiction; TO controversies to which the Confede-
rate States shall be party TO controversies be-
tween tive or more States; between a State and
citizens Of another State where the State is plain
tiff between citizens claiming lands under grants
Of different States, and between State or the cti-
Gems thereof and foreign States citizens or subjects
but no State shall be sued by citizen or subject Of
any foreign State tA
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other pub
lilo minister's 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 to law and fact with such ex-
gress shall make. HH
8. The trial Of all crimes except In cases of i'm
peachment 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 at such place
or places as the Congress may by law have directed
tg .. SECTION 8.
/. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in levying against them, or in ad-
herring to their enemies, giving them aid and COM
fort No person shall be convicted of treason un-
ess the testimony of two witnesses 10 the same
overt act or 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.
V-T. TT- ARTICLE ~.
.. SECTION l..
!. 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 g.
l. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges aod mmunities 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. person charged in any State with treason,
felony or other crime 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 removed to the State having jurisdiction of the
crime.
g. No slave or other person held 70 service or la
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
la he dicch rnad cuchl
service or labor but shall be delivered up claim
of the party to whom such slave belongs or to
whom such service or labor may be due.
SECTION 8.
|. Other Slater may be admitted into this Con-
ederacy 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 or erected within the jurisdiction of
any other State; any State be formed by the
junction of two more States, parts of States
without the consent of the legislatures of the States
concerned as well as of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of
and make all needfu rules and regulations con-
corning the property of the Confederate States, in
Gliding the lands thereof.
3. The Confederate States may acquire new ter
ritory and Congress shall have power to egislate
and provide governments for the inhabitants of all
territory belonging to the Confederate States lying
within the limits of the several States; and may
rs it may by law provide TO form States to be ad-
United into the Confedency. In all such territory
the institution of negro slavery as 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 Contade-
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-
federate States.
4. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
State that now is or hereafter may become mem
Der of this Coniederacy, a republican form of gov
ernment and shall protect each of them against
invasion; an1 application of the legislature Tor
of the Executive when the legislature is not in ses
sion) against domestic violence.
ARTICLE v.
| SECTION l.
| l. Upon the demand of any three States, legally
assembled in their several conventions the Congress
shall summon a convention, of all the States, to
take Rto consideration such amendments to the
Constitution 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 oftwO-hrds of the several States
or by conventions in two-thirds hereof-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
/ -It ltt ARTICLE vi.
l. The Government established by this Constitu-
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 I'M
I'll the same shall be repealed or 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.
i 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 rs under the Provisional Govern
ment
II Z B, This Constitution, and the laws Of the Confed-
crate States made in pursuance thereof aud all trea-
ties made OF which shall be made under the author
4 ity of the land and the Judges in every State
shall be bound thereby anything in the constitu-
ton or laws Of any State TO the contrary notwith-
standing