PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



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introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, 

 or Territory not belonging to, this Confederacy. 



8. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall 

 not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or 

 invasion the public safety may require it. 



4. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law 

 denying or impairing the right of property in negro 

 slaves, shall be passed. 



5. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid un- 

 less in proportion to the census or enumeration herein- 

 before directed to be taken. 



6. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported 

 from any State, except by a vote of two-thicds of both 

 Houses. 



7. No preference shall be given by any regulation 

 of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over 

 those of another. 



8. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but 

 in consequence of appropriations made by law ; and a 

 regular statement and account of the receipts and ex- 

 penditures of all public money shall be published from 

 time to time. 



9. Congress shall appropriate no money from the 

 treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses, 

 taken by yeas and nays, unless it be asked and es- 

 timated for by some one of the heads of depart- 

 ments, and submitted to Congress by the President ; 

 or for the pin-pose of paying its own expenses and con- 

 tingencies ; or for the payment of claims against the 

 Confederate States, the justice of which snail have 

 been judicially declared by a tribunal for the investi- 

 gation of claims against the Government, which it is 

 hereby made the duty of Congress to establish. 



10. All bills appropriating money shall specify in 

 federal currency the exact amount of each appropria- 

 tion and the purposes for which it is made ; and Con- 

 gress shall grant no extra compensation to any public 

 contractor, officer, agent, or servant, after such contract 

 shall have been made or such service rendered. 



11. No title of nobility shall be granted by the Con- 

 federate States ; and no person holding any office of 

 profit or trust under them shall, without the consent 

 of the Congress, accept of any present, emoluments, 

 office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, 

 prince, or foreign state. 



12. Congress shall make no law respecting an estab- 

 lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise 

 thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the 

 press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assem- 

 ble. and petition the Government for a redress of griev- 

 ances. 



13. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the 

 security of a free State, the right of the people to keep 

 and bear arms shall not be infringed. 



14. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered 

 in any house without the consent of the owner ; nor 

 in time of war, but in a manner prescribed by law. 



15. The right of the people to be secure in their per- 

 sons, houses, papers, and against unreasonable searches 

 and seizures, shall not be violated ; and no warrant 

 shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath 

 or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to 

 be searched, and the person or things to be seized. 



10. No person shall be held to answer for a capital 

 or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment 

 or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising 

 in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in 

 actual service, in time of war, or public danger ; nor 

 shall any person be subject for the same offence to be 

 twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor be compelled 

 in any criminal case" to be a witness against himself; 

 nor fie deprived of life, liberty, or property, without 

 due process of law ; nor shall any private property be 

 taken for public use without just compensation. 



17. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall 

 enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an im- 

 partial jury of the State and district wherein the crime 

 shall have' been committed, which district shall have 

 been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed 

 of the nature and cause of the accusation ; to be con- 

 fronted with the witnesses against him ; to have com- 



pulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; 

 and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence. 



18. In suits at common law, where the value in con- 

 troversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial 

 by jury shall be preserved; and no fact so tried by a 

 jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the 

 Confederacy, than according to the rules of the com- 

 mon law. 



19. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor exces- 

 sive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishment 

 inflicted. 



20. Every law, or resolution having the force of law, 

 shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be ex- 

 pressed in the title. 



SEC. 10. No State shall enter into any treaty, alli- 

 ance, or confederation ; grant letters of marque and 

 reprisals ; coin money ; make any thing but gold and 

 silver coin a tender in payment of dents; pass any 

 bill of attainder, or ex, post facto law, or law impairing 

 the obligation of contracts ; or grant any title of no- 

 bility. 



2. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, 

 lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, ex- 

 cept what may be absolutely necessary for executing 

 its inspection laws ; and the net produce of all duties 

 and imposts, laid by any State on imports or exports, 

 shall be for the use'of the Treasury of the Confederate 

 States ; and all such laws shall b'e subject to the re- 

 vision and control of Congress. 



3. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, 

 lay any duty of tonnage, except on sea-going vessels, 

 for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navi- 

 gated by the said vessels ; but such duties shall not 

 conflict with any treaties of the Confederate States 

 with foreign nations; and any surplus of revenue, 

 thus derived, shall, after making such improvement, 

 be paid into the common treasury ; nor shall any 

 State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, 

 enter into any agreement or compact with another 

 State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, un- 

 less actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as 

 will not admit of delay. But when any river divides 

 or flows through two or more States, they may enter 

 into compacts with each other to improve the naviga- 

 tion thereof. 



ARTICLE II. SEC. 1. The Executive power shall be 

 vested in a President of the Confederate States of 

 America. He and the Vice-President shall hold their 

 offices for the term of six years; but the President 

 shall not be retligible. The 'President and Vice-Presi- 

 dent shall be elected as follows : 



2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the 

 Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors 

 equal to the whole number of Senators and Represent- 

 atives to which the State maybe entitled in Congress ; 

 but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an 

 office of trust or profit under the Confederate States, 

 shall be appointed an elector. 



3. The electors shall meet in their respective States 

 and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, 

 one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the 

 same State with themselves ; they shall name in their 

 ballots the person voted for as President, and in dis- 

 tinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, 

 and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted 

 for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- 

 President, and of the number of votes for each ; which 

 list they shall sign, and certify, and transmit, sealed, 

 to the Government of the Confederate States, directed 

 to the President of the Senate. The President of the 

 Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House 

 of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the 

 votes shall then be counted ; the person having the 

 greatest number of votes for President shall be the 

 President, if such number be a majority of the whole 

 number of electors appointed ; and if no person shall 

 have such a majority, then, from the persons having 

 the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list 

 of those voted for as President, the House of Repre- 

 sentatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the 

 President. But, in choosing the President, the rotes 



