The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-06

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raj Assembly shall revise the civil and crimina
laws of the State and form penal code, and
that this operation shall be repeated every ten
years. The form Of pleading is to be made uni
form, and the practice revised and simplfed
The Governor, in connection with two-thirds ol
each house of the General Assembly, may re-
move any executive or judicial officer for wlfu
neglect of duty. The House Of Representatives
is vested with the sole power Of impeachment
and any officer impeaohed shall be suspended
from Office until judgment shall have been pro-
nounced. All impeachments to be tried by the
| Senate.
EDUCATION.
The report of the Committee on Education
provides for the appointment Of State super
intendent, to be elected by the people, and
a school commissioner for each district
who, together, are to constitute board.
The State is to be divided into school districts,
and the compulsory attendance at free schools
of all children between six and sixteen years o1
age, for at least twenty -four months, is ordain-
ed. To support the free schools, there shall be
O. poll-tax Of one dollar. There shall be State
school for the reform of juvenile offenders, and
an agricultural college and all public schools,
colleges and universities Of this State, support
ed by the public funds, shall be open to all
children, without regard to race or color.
We, THE PEOPLE OF TIE STATE OF SOUTH Ca
RoLINA, IN CONVENTION ASSEMBLED, Grateful to
Almighty God for this opportunity, deliberate
| ly aud peacefully, Of entering into an explicit
! and solemn compact with each other, and
forming new constitution Of civil govern
| ing the necessity OF the protection OF the
| body polite in all that pertains to their
| freedom, safety and tranquility, and i'm
ploring the direction of the Great Legislator
| Of the universe, do agree upon, ordain and es-
tablish the following
| DECLARATION OF RIGHTS AND FORM OF GOV
EMINENT AS THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
| COMMONWEALTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
ARTICLE I.
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.
SEC. 1. All men are born free and equal
endowed by their Creator with certain mali an
able rights, among which may be reckoned the
right Of enjoying and defending their lives and
| liberties, acquiring, possessing and protecting
property, and seeking and obtaining their SAFE
| ty and happiness.
nor involuntary servitude, otherwise than for
the punishment of crime, whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted.
SEC. 8. All political power is vested in and
derived from the people only; therefore they
have the right, at all times, to modify their
form OF government in such manner as they
may deem expedient, when the public good
demands.
SEC 4. Every citizen of this State owes par
amount allegiance to tho Constitution and
Government Of the United States, and no law
or ordinance Of this State in contravention or
subverslon thereof can have any binding force.
Sec S. This State shall ever remain MEM
ber of tho American Union, and all attempts,
from whatever source, or upon whatever pre-
text, to dissolve said Union, ought to be resist
ed with the whole power OF the State.
SEC. 6. The right Of the people, peaceably to
assemble to consult tor the common good, and
to petition the government, or any department
thereof, shall never be abridged.
Sec T. All persons resident in this State,
born in the United States, or who have been
naturalized, and shall have legally become citi-
IONS of the United States, are hereby declared
citizens of South Carolina, possessing equal
civil and political rights and public privileges
as hereinafter declared by this constitution
SEC. 8. All persons may freely speak, write
and publish their sentiments on any sup]ect,
being responsible tor the abuse Of that right;
and no laws shall be enacted to restrain or
abridge the liberty Of speech or OF the press.
SEC. 8. In prosecutions for the publication OF
papers investigating the official conduct OF
officers or men in public capacity, or when the
matter published is proper tor public infor-
nation, the truth thereof may be given IN evl-
dence; and that in all indictments for LIBEL, the
Jury shall have the right to determine the law
and the facts under the direction Of the court.
SEC. 10. No person shall be deprived OF the
right to worship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience; Prouaded, That the lib
erty of conscience hereby declared shall not
Justify practice inconsistent with the peace and
moral safety OF society.
Iished by law; but il shall be the duty OF the
Legislature to pass suitable laws to protect
every religious denomination in the peaceable
enjoyment OF its own mode of worship.
Sec. II. The right OF trial by jury shall re-
main inviolate.
SEC. 13. No person shall be disqualified as
witness Or be prevented from acquiring, mold
ing and transmitting property, or De lapie 10
any other punishment for any offence, or be
hindered in acquiring education, or be subject
ed in law to any other restraints or disqualifi-
cations in regsrd to any personal rights than
such as are laid upon others under like clrcum-
stances.
SEC. IA. No person Snall DC uoiu tO aUSWer
for any crime or offence until the same is fully,
fairly, plainly, substantially and formally de-
scribed 10 him; or be compelled to accuse or
furnish evidence against himself; and every
person shall havo right to produce all proofs
that may be favorable to him, to meet the wit
nesses against him faco to faco, to have
speedy and public trial by an impartial jury,
and to be fully heard in his defence OF himself
or by his counsel, cs ho may elect
SEC. is. No person shall be arrested, I'M
prisoned, despoilcd OF dispossessed OF his prop
erty, imnlunitics or privileges, put out of tho
protection Of the law, exilcd or deprived OF his
| life. liberty or estate but by the Judgment OF
his poers or the law Of the land. And the leg
islature shall not enact any law that shall sub
iect any person to punishment without trial BY
iury: nor shall he be punished but by virtue OF
q law already established, or promulgated prior
to the offence, and legally applied.
SEC. IL. ALI courts shall be open, and every
person, for any injury that he may receive in
| his land, goods, person Or reputation, shall
have remedy By duo course OF Law and justice
administered without unnecessary delay.
Sro. II. All persons shalls before conviction,
be bailable by sufficient suretles, except for
capitl offences, when the proof is evident or
the presumption great; and excessive bail shall
NOT. in any case, be acquired, nor corporeal
punishment inflicted
Spc. I8. Theprivile ege Of the writ. Of habeas
corpus shall not be suspended, except in case
M. insurrection, rebellion CT invasion, the pub
| 1ic safety may require it.
SEC. Is. No person, after having been once
acquitted by jury, can be again, for the same
offence. put in Jeopardy of his life or lib