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June 10, 2020 - April 5, 2021
We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.
according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all slaves.
The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every fifty thousand, but each State shall have at least one Representative;
except that any judicial or other Federal officer, resident and acting solely within the limits of any State, may be impeached by a vote of two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature thereof.
To establish post offices and post routes; but the expenses of the Post Office Department, after the 1st day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenues.
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
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.
nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
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 reeligible.
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;
The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the Confederate States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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;
Treason against the Confederate States shall consist only in levying war against.them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
The powers not delegated to the Confederate States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people thereof.
