SECTION 1.8.
The Congress shall have power--
1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, for revenue necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States; but no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry, and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the Confederate States:
2. To borrow money on the credit of the Confederate States:
3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aid to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation, in all which cases, such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby, as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof:
4. To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the Confederate States; but no law of Congress shall discharge any debt contracted before the passage of the same:
5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures:
6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Confederate States:
7. To establish post offices but the expenses of the Postal Service shall be paid out of its own revenues within five years after ratification of the Constitution and Congress may by law privatize all or part of the Postal Service:
8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries:
9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court:
10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations:
11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and on water:
12. To provide and maintain the Confederate Armed Forces:
13. To provide and maintain the Confederate Coast Guard, the uniformed components shall constitute a part of the military forces of the Confederate States. The Coast Guard shall enforce all immigration and custom laws; patrol the international borders; enforce maritime and fisheries laws; and other duties that Congress may by law provide for. In time of peace the Coast Guard shall operate under the joint control of the Treasury and Justice Departments and in time of war, or when the President shall so direct, be subject to the orders of the Navy:
13a. To provide and maintain the Confederate States Marshal Service for national security that shall consist of intelligence operations; security and protection of military facilities, courts, and other Confederate property; security of Confederate prisons and transported prisoners; protection of the President and other persons; and other duties that Congress may by law provide for. The Marshal Service shall operate under the joint control of the Defense and Justice Departments:
14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the Confederate Armed Forces:
15. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions:
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Confederate States; reserving to the States, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress:
17. To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of one or more States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the Confederate States. Any land within the district shall consist only of land owned by the Federal Government and all other privately owned or non-Federal public land shall be returned to the State that originally ceded the district. And to exercise like authority over all places purchased with the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful facilities and buildings. The Federal Government shall never own title to any real property which is not specifically authorized by this Constitution such as parks, forests, dams, waterways, and grazing areas without the consent of the State where same is located:
18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the Confederate States, or in any department or officer thereof:
19. To make laws that mandate non-heterosexual orientation to be grounds for denying or removing from membership within the Armed Forces, Militias, and other military reserve forces that Congress may by law provide for:
20. To make laws that prohibit women from combat where they would be required to seek out, close with, and destroy an enemy. Women shall be excluded from all combat aircraft, warships, direct front-line combat, special-elite Military forces, and combat support units that have a high risk of direct contact with an enemy:
21. To set time limits when a candidate for any Confederate office is allowed to withdraw their name from the ballot:
22. To make all employment rules and regulations for Confederate Civil Service employees to include the setting of wages and employee benefits: workplace health, safety, and retirement policies: and all other employer powers and duties as Congress may by law provide for but shall not have the power to enforce such laws on non-Confederate public or private employers, employees, and workplaces:
23. To establish the Executive Departments of State, Justice, Treasury, Defense, and Interior. The Department of the Interior shall only have the power to manage and control Confederate land, property, and facilities. Congress may by law add or subtract any Confederate Departments or Agencies whose powers and duties do not violate this Constitution:
24. To allocate portions of the electromagnetic wave frequency spectrum for communication and other purposes and may set a fee schedule to cover the costs associated with this regulation. This clause does not give Congress the power to regulate the ownership, content, or political speech of broadcasters nor require any type of fairness doctrine for political speech:
25. To make laws for the transfer of any causes which were pending in the courts of the United States, to the courts of the Confederate States, and for the execution of the orders, decrees, and judgments heretofore rendered by the said courts of the United States: and also all laws which may be requisite to protect the parties to all such suits, orders, judgments, or decrees, their heirs, personal Representatives, or assignees if said orders, decrees, and judgments are not in conflict with this Constitution, and:
26. To fund a system of tax free pensions and allowances, hospitals, clinics, and domiciliaries for retired or disabled members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
SECTION 1.9.
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime, shall exist within the Confederate States or any place subject to its jurisdiction. The Confederate States nor any place subject to its jurisdiction and all private and public organizations or corporations shall not be required to pay any type of reparations for slavery that once existed within the territory of the Confederate States of America.
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3. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in case of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
4. No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property [Deleted] shall be passed.
5. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
6. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State, except by a vote of two-thirds 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 expenditures 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 estimated for by some one of the heads of departments, and submitted to Congress by the President; or for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies; or for the payment of claims against the Confederate States, the Justices of which shall have been judicially declared by a tribunal for the investigation 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 appropriation and the purposes for which it is made; and Congress 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 Confederate States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State.
12. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment 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 assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
13. The Congress or any State or any political subdivision shall show neither favoritism nor hostility against religious expression on any public property or any public school.
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 to be prescribed by law.
15. The right of the People to be secure in their communications, records, persons, houses, businesses, papers, and effects against unreasonable monitoring, searches, and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched or monitored, and the persons or things to be seized.
15a. The burden of proving guilt on any matter; civil, tax, or criminal shall be on the Government nor shall a person be again put upon trial for the same offence after a verdict of not guilty; and the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.
15b. Any person may sue for redress as provided by law for any damages suffered through the illegal acts of any public official.
16. 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 be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall 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 impartial 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 confronted with the witness against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
18. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact so tried by jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the Confederacy, than according to the rules of the common law.
19. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.
20. Every law, or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
21. The People of the individual States shall have the power to recall their State's Representative or Senator in Congress.
22. No person who has been convicted of a crime (unless pardoned) shall be eligible to hold office as a Senator or Representative and any extant Senator or Representative convicted of a crime shall not be allowed to continue in their office.
23. To clarify the laws and statures of the Confederate States marriage shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman. The Congress shall not have the power to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon same sex or unmarried couples or groups not meeting this requirement. Each individual State shall have the power to define marriage or the legal incidents thereof but no State shall be required under the full faith and credit clause in this Constitution to recognize any marriage contrary to their laws and these laws shall not be challenged in any Confederate court.
24. If any citizen of the Confederate States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the Confederate States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
25. Except for areas on or near international borders or points of entry into the Confederate States, security and control of Confederate land or facilities, and apprehension of illegal aliens, no Confederate Agency or Executive Department shall have any legal jurisdiction within any State, including a distance of twelve miles off their seacoasts.
SECTION 1.10.
No State shall have the power--
1. To enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money: make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility:
2. Without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except 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 be subject to the revision and control of Congress, and:
3. Without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on tonnage, except on sea-going vessels, for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Confederate States with foreign nations; and any surplus 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, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay; but when an air or other transportation route crosses over, under, or through two or more States or when any natural river or manmade waterway divides or flows through two or more States, they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.
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