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ARTICLE I. ARTICLE I.
SECTION I. SECTION I.
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may, by law, provide for the case of may by law provide for the case of
removal, death, resignation, or ina- removal, death, resignation, or ina Congress may, by law, vest the ap- i But the Congress may by law vest
ability both of the President and bility, both of the President and Vice- pointment of such inferior officers, the, appointment of such inferior offi
Vice-President, declaring what officer President. declaring what officer shall as they think proper, in the Presi cers as they think proper in the Pre
shall then act as President, and such then act as President; and such offi dent alone, in the courts of law, or ' sident alone, in the courts of law, or
cer shall act accordingly, until the in the heads of Departments. in the heads of Departments.
officer shall act accordingly until the
disability be removed or a President disability be removed or a President 3. The principal offi -or in each of'
shall be elected. shall be elected. the Executive Departments, and all .
persons connected with the diploma
9. The President shall, at stated 7. The President shall, at stated tic service, may be removed from '
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times, receive for his services a com times, receive for his services a com office at the pleasure of the Presi
pensation, which shall neither be in pensation, which shall neither be in dent. All other civil officers of the
creased nor diminished during the creased nor diminished during the Executive Department may be re
period for which he shall have been period for which he shall have been moved at any time by the President,
elected; and he shall not receive elected, and he shall not receive or other appointing power, when
within that period any other emolu within that period any other emolu their services are unnecessary, or for
ment from the Confederate States, or ment from the United States, or any dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency,
any of them. of them. 1 misconduct, or neglect of duty; and
10. Before he enters on the execu 8. Before he, enters on the execu when so removed, the removal shall
tion of his office, he shall take the tion of his office, he shall take the be reported to the Senate, together
folio wing oath or affirmation: following oath or affirmation : with the reasons therefor.
" I do solemnly swear (or affirm) " I do solemnly swear (or affirm) 4. The President shall have power 3. The President shall have power
that I will faithfully execute the office that I will faithfully execute the office to fill all vacancies that may happen to fill up all vacancies that may hap
of President of the Confederate of President of the United States, during the recess of the Senate, by pen during the recess of the Senate,
States, and will, to the best of my and will, to the best of my ability, granting commissions which shall ex by granting commissions, which rhall
ability, preserve, protect, and defend preserve, protect, and defend the pire at the end of their next session : expire at the end of their next session.
the Constitution thereof." Constitution of the United States." but no person rejected by the Senate |
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shall be re-appointed to the same } to all cases of admiralty and mari consuls ; to all cases of admiralty and
office during their ensuing recess. time jurisdiction ; to controversies to maritime jurisdiction ; to controver
which the. Confederate States shall sies to which the United States shall
SECTION III. SECTION III.
be a party; to controversies between be a party; to controversies between
two or more States ; between a State two or more States; between a State
1. The President shall, from time 1. He shall, from time to time, give and citizens of another State; be
to time, give to the Congress infor to Congress information of the state and citizens of another State where
the State is plaintiff; between citi tween citizens of different Stales;
mation of the State of the Confeder of the Union, and recommend totln-ir between citizens of the same State
acy, and recommend to their consid consideration such measures as he zens claiming lands under grants of
different States, and between a State claiming lands under grants of differ
eration such measures as he shall shall juilge, necessary and expedient; ent. States: and between a State, or
judge necessary and expedient; he he may, on extraordinary occasions, or the citizens thereof, and foreign
States, citizens or subjects; but no the citizens thereof, and foreign
may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or cither of States, citizens, or subjects.
convene both Houses, or either of them; and in case of disagreement State shall be sued by a citizen or
them; and in case of disagreement between thron, with respect to the subject of any foreign State.
2. In all cases affecting ambassa 2. In all cases affecting ambassa
between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn dors, other public ministers, and con
time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think dors, other public ministers, and con
suls, and those in which a State shall suls, and those in which a State shall
them to such a time as he siiall think ' proper; he shall receive ambassadors be a party, the Supreme Court sliall
proper ; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall
have original jurisdiction. In all the have original jurisdiction. In all the
and other public ministers ; he shall take cure that the laws be faithfully other eases before mentioned, the Su
take care that the laws be faithfully executed; an I shall commission all other cases before mentioned, the.
Supreme Court shall have appellate preme Court shall ha\e appellate
executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States. jurisdiction, both as to law and fact,
the officers of the Confederate States. jurisdiction, both as to law and fact,
with such exceptions, and under such with such exceptions, and under such
regulations, as the Congress sliall regulations as Congress shall make.
SECTION IV.
make.
1. The President, Vice-President, 1. The President, Viee-President, 3. The trial of all crimes, except S. The trial of all crimes, except
and all civil officers of the Confeder and all civil officers of the United in cases of impeachment, shall be by in cases of impeachment, shall be by
ate States, shall be removed from States, shall be removed from office jury, and such trial shall be held in jury, and such trial shall be held in
office on impeachment for, and con on impeachment for, and conviction the State where, the said crimes shall the State where the said crimes shall
viction of, treason, bribery, or other of treason, bribery, or other high have been committed ; but when not have been committed ; but when not
high crimes and misdemeanors. crimes and misdemeanors. committed within any State, the trial committed within any State, the trial
shall be at such place or places as shall be at- such place or places as
ARTICLE III. ARTICLE III. the Congress may by law have di Congress may by law have directed.
rected.
SECTION I. SECTION I.
SECTION III. SECTION III.
1. The judicial power of the Con 1. The judicial power of the United
federate States shall be vested in one States shall be vested in one Supreme 1. Treason against the Confederate 1. Treason against the United
Supreme Court, and in such Inferior Court, and in such Inferior Courts as States shall consist only in levying States shall consist only in levying
Courts as the Congress may from Congress may, from time to time war against them, or in adhering to war against them, or in adhering to
time to time ordain and establish. order and establish. The judges, their enemies, giving them aid and their enemies. Living them aid and
The judges, both of the Supreme and both of the Supreme and Inferior comfort. No person shall be con comfort, No person shall be con
Inferior Courts, shall hold their offices Courts, shall hold their offices during victed of treason unless on the testi victed of treason, unless on the testi
during good behavior, and shall, at good behaviour ; and shall, at stated mony of two witnesses to the same mony of two witnesses to the same
stated times, receive for their services times, receive for their services a com overt act, or on confession in open overt act, or confession in open court.
a compensation, which shall not be pensation, which shall not be dimin
ished during their continuance in court.
diminished during their continuance 2. The Congress shall have power 2. Congress shall have power to
in office. office. to dec! re the punishment of treason, declare the punishment of treason ;
but no attainder of treason shall I but no attainder of treason shall
SECTION II. SECTION II.
work corruption of blood, or forfeit work corruption of blood, or forfeit
1. The judicial power shall extend ure, except during the life of the ure, except during the life of the
1. The judicial power shall extend person attainted.
to all cases arising under this Consti to all cases in law and equity arising person attainted.
tution, the laws of the Confederate under this Constitution, the laws of'
the United States, and treaties made, ARTICLE IV. ARTICLE IV.
States, and treaties made or which
shall be made under their authority; or which shall be made, under their SECTION I. SECTION 1.
to all cases affecting ambassadors, authority; to all cases affecting am
other public ministers and consuls; bassadors, other public ministers and 1. Full faith and credit shall be 1. Full faith and credit shall be
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2. The Congress shall have power 2. Congress shall have power to
given in each State to the public given in each State to the public to dispose of and make all needful dispose of, and make all needful rules
acts, records and judicial proceedings acts, records and judicial proceedings rules and regulations concerning the and regulations respecting the terri
of every other State. And the Con- of every other State. And Congress property of the Confederate States, tory, or other property belonging to
gressmay, by general laws, prescribe may, by general laws, prescribe the including the lands thereof. the United States, and nothing in
the manner in which such acts, rec manner in which such acts, records this Constitution shall be so construed
ords and proceedings shall be proved, and proceedings shall be proved, and as to prejudice any claims of the
and the effect thereof. the effect thereof. United States or of any particular
State.
SECTION II. SECTION II. 3. The Confederate States may
1. The citizens of each State shall acquire new territory; and Congress
1. The citizens of each State shall shall have power to legislate and
be entitled to all the privileges and be entitled to all the privileges and
immunities of citizens in the several provide governments for the inhabi
immunities of citizens in the several tants of all territory belonging to
States, and shall have the right of States.
transit and sojourn in any State of the. Confederate States, lying with
this Confederacy, with their slaves out the limits of the several States ;
and other property; and the right and may permit them, at such times,
of property in said slaves shall not and in such manner as it may by law
be thereby impaired. provide, to form States to be admit
2. A person charged in any State ted into the Confederacy. In all
2. A person charged in any State such territory, the institution of negro
with treason, felony, or other crime with treason, felony, or other crime, slavery as it now exists in the Con
against the laws of such State, who who shall flee from justice and be
shall flee from justice, and be found federate States, shall be recognized
found in another State, shall, on de and protected by Congress, and by
in another State, shall, on demand mand of the Executive authority of
of the Executive authority of the the territorial government; and t
the State from which he fled, be de inhabitants of the several Confed
State from which he fled, be deliv livered up, to be removed to the State erate States and Territories, shall
ered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime. have the right to take to such terri
having jurisdiction of the crime. tory any slaves, lawfully held by them
3. No slave or other person held 3. No person held to service or in any of the States or territories of SECTION TV.
to service or labor in any State or labor in one State, under the laws the Confederate States.
Territory of the Confederate States, thereof, escaping into another, shall, 4. The Confederate States shall 1. The United States shall guar
under the laws thereof, escaping or in consequence of any law or regu guarantee to every State that now is antee to every State in this Union a
lawfully carried into another, shall, lation therein, be discharged from or hereafter may become a member republican form of government, and
in consequence of any law or regu such service or labor; but shall be of this Confederacy, a republican shall protect each of them against
lation therein, be discharged from delivered up on claim of the party form of government, and shall pro invasion: and, on application of the.
such service or labor; but shall be to whom such service or labor may tect each of them against invasion ; Legislature, or of the Executive
delivered up on claim of the party be due. and on application of the Legislature (wEen the Legislature cannot be
to whom such slave belongs, or to (or of the Executive, when the Leg convened), against domestic violence.
whom such service or labor may be islature is not in session) against do
due. mestic violence.
SECTION III. SECTION III.
ARTICLE V. ARTICLE V.
1. Other States may be admitted 1. New States may be admitted 1. Upon the demand of any three 1. Congress, whenever two-thirds
into this Confederacy by a vote of by Congress into this Union ; but no States, legally assembled in their of both Houses shall deem it neces
two-thirds of the whole House of new State shall be formed or erected several Conventions, the Congress sary, shall propose amendments to
Representatives, and two-thirds of within the jurisdiction of any other shall summon a Convention of all this Constitution; or, on the appli
the Senate, the Senate voting by State, nor any State he formed by the States, to take into consideration cation of the Legislatures of two-
States; but no new State shall be the junction of two or more States, such amendments to the Constitution thirds of the several States, shall call
formed or erected within the juris or parts of States, without the con as the said States shall concur in sug a Convention for proposing amend
diction of any other State ; nor any sent of the Legislatures of the States gesting at the time when the said de ments, which, in either case, shall
State be formed by the junction of concerned, as well as of Congress. mand 'is made: and should any of the be valid to all intents and purposes,
two or more States, or parts of States, proposed amendments to the Consti as part of this Constitution, when
without the consent of the Legisla tution be agreed on by the said Con ratified by the Legislatures of three-
tures of the States concerned, as vention voting by States and the fourths of the several States, or by
well as of the Congress.
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same be ratified by the Legislatures Conventions in three-fourths thereof, be construed to deny or disparage be construed to deny or disparage
of two-thirds of the several States, as the one or the other mode of rati others retained by the people of the others retained by the people.
or by Conventions in two-thirds fication may be proposed by Con several States.
thereof as the one or the other gress ; provided, that no amendment G. The powers not delegated to 10.* The powers not delegated to
mode of ratification may be proposed which may be made prior to the year the Confederate States by the Con the United States by the Constitution,
by the general Convention they one thousand eight hundred and stitution, nor prohibited by it to the nor prohibited bv it to the States, are
shall thenceforward form a part of eight, shall, in any manner, affect the States, are reserved to the States, reserved to the States respectively or
this Constitution. But no State first and fourth clauses in the ninth respectively, or to the people thereof. to the people.
shall, without its consent, be deprived section of the first article; and that
of its equal representation in the no State, without its consent, shall ARTICLE VII. ARTICLE VII.
Senate. be deprived of its equal suffrage in
the Senate. 1. The ratification of the Conven 1. The ratification of the Conven
tions of five States shall be sufficient tions of nine States shall be sufficient
ARTICLE VI. ARTICLE VI. for the establishment of this Consti for the establishment of this Consti
tution between the States so ratify tution between the States so ratifying
1. The Government established by ing the same. the same.
this Constitution is the successor of 2. When five States shall have
the Provisional Government of the ratified this Constitution, in the man
Confederate States of America, and ner above specified, the Congress un
all the laws passed liy the latter shall der the Provisional Constitution shall
continue in force until the same shall prescribe the time for holding the
be repealed or modified; and all the election of President and Vice Presi-.
officers appointed by the same shall dent; and, for the meeting of the
remain in oflice until their successors Electoral College; and, for counting
are appointed and qualified, or the the votes, and inaugurating the Pres
offices abolished. ident. They shall, also, prescribe the
2. All debts contracted and en 1. All debts contracted, arid en time for holding the first election of
gagements entered into before the gagements entered into, before the members of Congress under this Con
adoption of this Constitution shall adoption of this Cousti ution, shall stitution, and the time for assembling
be as valid against the Confederate I be as valid against the United States the same. Until the assembling of
States under this Constitution as un under this Constitution, as under the such Congress, the Congress under
der the Provisional Government. the Provisional Constitution shall con
Confederation.
3. This Constitution, and the laws 2. This Constitution, and the laws tinue to exercise the legislative pow- '
of the Confederate States, made in of the United Stares which, shall be ers granted them ; not extending |
beyond the time limited by the Con
pursuance thereof, and all treaties made in pursuance thereof, and all
made, or which shall bi made, under stitution of the Provisional Govern- ,
treaties made, or which shall be made,
ment.
the authority of the Confederate under th authority of the United
States, shall be the supreme law of I States, shall be the supreme law of Amendment.
the land; and {he judges in every : the land; and the judges in every
State shall be bound thereby, any- State shall be bound thereby, any
thing in the constitution or laws of thing in the Constitution or laws of
any State to the contrary notwith any State to the contrary notwith
standing. standing.
4. The Senators and Representa 3. The Senators and Representa
tives before mentioned, and the mem tives before mentioned, and the mem
bers of the several State Legislatures, bers of the several State Legislatures,
and all executive and judicial officers, and all exeL-utive and judicial officers,
both of the Confederate States and both of the United States and of the
of the several States, shall bo bound several States, shall be bound by oath
by oath or affirmation, to support this or affirmation to support this Consti-
Constitution ; but no religious test tion : but no religious test shall ever
shall ever be required as a qualifies- be required as a qualification to any
tion to any office or public trust un- office, or public trust, under the
der the Confederate States. United States.
5. The enumeration, in the Con 9.* The enumeration in the Con
stitution, of certain rights, shall not stitution of certain rights, shall not
* Amendment.
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