Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-05

such majority, then. from the persons having ths
ngnes. % numosIs Zoe not ssseedns three on the list o
tatjves shall choose Immediately, by ballet the Presi
dent But in choosing the President the shall be
having vote; quorum for this purpose shall con-
sst of member or members from two thirds of the
ssry to choice. And if the House Of Rasressntatyes
shall not choose President, whenever the right OF
choice shall deyolye upon them, before the fourth day
OF March next foowng then the Vice President shall
act President the death or other con-
sttutonal disability of the President.
a. 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: andif no person have majority, then
from the two highest numbers the list the Senate
shall choose the Vice President quorum for the pur-
pose shall consist of two-thirds of whole number
OF Senators, and majority of the whole number shall
be necessary to a choice.
s. No person constitutionally Ineligible TO the Office
of President shall be eligible to that Of Vice President
of the Confederate States
6. The Congress may determine the time of choosing
the electors and the day which they shall give their
votes; which day shall be the same throughout the
Confederate States q
I. No person except natural born citizen of the
Confederate States, citizen thereof time of
the adoption of the Constitution citizen thereof
born the United States prior TO the 20th of Decem-
Der, 1862 shall be eligible to the office of President
neither shall any person be eligible to that office who
shall not have attained the age of thirty years.
and been fourteen years resident within the limits
Of the Confederate States as they NAV exist at the
time OF his election.
s. In Of the removal of the President from Of
flee, or of his death, resignation, inability dis
charge the powers and duties of the said Office the
same shall deyove the Vice President and the
gress may, by law, provide for the OF removal,
death, resignation inability both of the President
and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then
act as President and such officer shall act accordingly
until the disability be removed President shall be
elected5
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 be
snail nave been elected and he shall not receive with
IN that period other emolument from the Coned-
crate States, any of them
10. Before he enters the execution of his Office
he shall take the following oath or Affirmation:
81 do soleinnly swear Cor aflrm) that will faith
fully execute the Office of President the Confederate
States, and WILL TO the best of my ability, preserve,
protect and defead the Constitution thereof.a
SECTION q
l. The President shall be command in chief of
the army and navy of the Confederate States, and
of the militia of the several States when called into
the actual service of the Confederate Sates he may
require the opinion, in writing of the principal Off.
Ger IN each OF the Departments, upon any
subject relating to the duties of their respective off,
ces; and he shall have power to grant reprieres and
Pardoas for offences against the Confederate States
except In cases OF impeachment.
he shall have power, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate to make treaties proyid
ed two-thrds of the Senatorsplesent concur and he
shall nominate and by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors other
public ministers and consus, Judges of the Supreme
Court and all other officers of Confederate States
whose appointments not herein otherwise pro-
yided for, and which shall be established by law;
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of such inferior officers as they think proper in the
President alone in the courts of law in the heads
of Departments.
8. The principal in each of the Executive Denart.
ments and all persons connected with the diplomat
ic service, may be removed from Office at the plea
sure of the President. All other civil ofcers Of the
Executive Department may be removed at any time
by the President, or other appointing power, when
their services are unnecessary, for dishonesty
capacity, ineciency misconduct or neglect of duty
and when SO removed, the removal shall be reported
to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor
&. Inc PRESIDENT shall have tn alIv
cies that may happen during the recess of the Sem
ate, by granting commissions which shall expire at
the end OF their next session. but person rejected
by the Senate shall be re-appointed to the oc>
during their ensuing recess.
SECTION 3.
1. The President shall, from time to tine give to
the Congress Information of the of the Confad-
eracy, and recommend to their consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient
Houses, or either of hem; and in case of disagree
ment between them, with respect to the time of ad
Journment, he may adjourn them to such time as he
snail thlnk proper; he shall receive ambassadors
and other public ministers; he shall take care that
the laws be faithfully executed, and shall
sion all the oflcers OF the Confederate States.
SECTION 4.
1. The President Vice President and all civil Off
cers OF the Confederate States shall be removed from
ONCE on impeachment for and conviction Of treason
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors
ARTICLE III.
ssEcTIoN Ia
]: 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 order and establish The judges, both of the
Supreme and Inferior Courts shall hold their offices
during good behavior, and shall at stated times re-
ceiye for their services compensation which shall
not be diminished during their continuance in Office
SECTION 2.
l. The judicial power shall extend to all cases ari
sing under this Constitution the laws the Coned.
crate States, and treaties made or which shah be
made under their authority to all cases affecting
ambassadors, other public ministers and consus; to
all of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction: to
controversies to which the Confederate States shall
Se party; to controversies between two more
States; between State and citizens of another
State where the State is plaintiff; between ctizens
claiming lands under grants of different States and
between State or the citizens thereof and foreign
States, citizens subjects; but no State shall be
sued by citizen or subject of any foreign State =
2 In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public
ministers, and consuls, and those in which State
shall be party the Supreme Court shall ha We origia
nal Jurisdiction In all the other before mens
toned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jus
rsdicton, both to law and facts with such excens
tions, and under such regulations, the Congress
shall make.
3. The trial of all crimes except in cases of i'm.
parchment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be
heid-in the State where the said crime shall have
been committed; but when not Committed within
any State, the trial shall be 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 against them, or in ad.
herring to their enemies, giving them aid and com.
fort No person shall be convicted of treason unless
on the testimony of two witnesses to the 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, forfeiture, except
during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE Nv.
SECTION 1.
/. Full faith and credit shall be kiven in each
State to the public acts records and 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.
SECTION 2.
L The citizens of each State shall be entitled TO
all the privileges and immunities Of citizens in the
several States and shall have the right Of transit
and sojourn in any State of the Conf9deracy, with
their slaves and other property; and the right Of
property in said slave shall not be thereby i'm
paired.
SHALL on demand OF the Executive authority of the
State from which he fed, be delivered up to be
moved to the State having Jurisdiction Of the crime.
8. No slave or other person held to service or Ia
States under the laws thereof, escaping lawfdiy
carried into another, SHALL in consequence of any
law or regulation therein be discharged from such
service or labor but shall be delivered up claim
of the party whom such slave belongs, or to whom
such service or labor may be due.
~ SECTION B. rff gss 3
I. Other States may be admitted into this o. fed
Representatives, and two-thirds Of the Senate the
Senate voting by Stater but no State shall be
formed or erected wf.ain the Jurisdiction of any
other State; nor any State be formed by the junc
ton of more States OF parts Of States, with
out the consent of the legislatures the States e
eorned well A Of the CoIIxreas