North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-09-17
VOL. 2, NO. 6.

and consuls to all cases of admiralty and
maritime jurisdiction; to controversies TO
which the United States shall be a party ; to
controversies between two or more States;
between State and citizens of another State
between citizens Of different States between
citizens of the same State claiming lands
under grants of different States and between
State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign
States, citizens, or subjects.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other
public ministers, and consuls, and those in
which State shall be party, the Supreme
Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In
all the other cases before mentioned, the Su
preme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction,
both as to law and fact, with such exceptions
and under such regulations as Congress shall
make.
3. The trial Of all crimes, except in cases
of impeachment, 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 Con-
gress may by law have directed.
Sec. I'LL. Treason against the United
States shall consist only in Ievying war
against them, or in adhering to their enemies
| giving them aid and comfort No person
shall be convicted of treason, unless on the
testimony of two witnesses to the same overt
act, or confession in open court
2. Congress shall have power to declare
| the punishment of treason but no attaind der
of treason shall work corruption of blood or
forfeiture, except during the life Of the per-
son attainted
ART. ". MISCELLANEOUS.
Sec. IL. Full faith and credit shall be
given in each State to the public acts, records,
and judicial proceedings of every other State.
And Congress may, by general laws, pre-
scribe the manner in which such acts, rec.
ords, and proceedings shall be proved, and
the effect thereof. ....,
Sec. 2.-l. The citizens of each State shall
be entitled to all the privileges and immuni-
| ties of citizens in the several States.
2. A person charged in any State with
| treason, felony, or other crime, who shall
flee from justice and be found in another
State, shall, on demand the executive
authority of the State from which he fed, be
delivered up, to be removed to the State
having jurisdiction of the crime. -.-.
2. No person held to service or labor in
one State under the laws thereof escaping
into another, shall in consequence of any law
or regulation therein, be discharged from
such service or labo-; but shall be delivered
up on claim of the party to whom sucn SER
vice or labor may be due. s
SEC. I'LL. New States may be admitted
by Congress into this union but no new
State shall be formed or 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 concerned,
as we'll as of Congress. -k
2. Congress shall have power to dispose of,
and make all needful rules and regulations
respecting the territory, or other property
belonging to the United States and nothing
IN this Constitution shall be so construed as
to prejudice any claims of the United States
or Of any particular State. g So
SEC, W. The United States shall
guarantee to every State in this Union re-
publican form of government, and shall pro-
tect each of them against invasion and, on
application of the Legislature, ur of the execu-.
tive { when the Legislature cannot be con-
vened, against domestic violence.
ART. v.-oF AMENDMENTS.
J.. Congress, whenever two thirds of both
Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
amendments to this Cons sttution or the
application of the Legislatures of two thirds
of the several States, shall call convention
for proposing amendments, which, in either
case, shall be valid to all lntents and purposes
as part of this Constitution, when ratified by
the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
several States, or by. conventions in three
fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode
of ratification may be proposed by Congress !;
provided, that no amendment which may be
made prior to the year one thousand eight
hundred and eight, shall in any manner affect
the first and fourth clauses in the ninth
section of the first article; and that no State,
without its consent, shall be deprived of its
equal suffrage in the Senate,
ART. vI.--AIsCELLkGEoUs.
/. All debts contracted and engagements
entered into, before the adoption of this Con-
stitution, shall be as valid against the United
States under this Constitution, as under the
Confederation. E@#
2. This Constitution, and the laws of the
United States which shall be made in pursu-
ance thereof and all treaties made, or which
shall be made, under the authority OF the