AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

Article 1. 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 to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Art. 2. 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.

Art. 3. 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.

Art. 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable 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, and the persons or things to be seized.

Art. 5. 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 shall 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.

Art. 6. 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 witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour; and to have assistance of counsel for his defence.

Art. 7. 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 tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Art. 8. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Art. 9. The enumeration in the constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Art. 10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Art. 11. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.

Art. 12. § 1. The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom,

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CONSTITUTION at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with them. U. STATES. selves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct 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 lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United 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 have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as president, the house of representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president. But, in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the house of representatives shall not choose a president whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the vice president shall act as president, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president.

2. The person having the greatest number of votes as vice president, shall be the vice president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the senate shall choose the vice president: a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.

3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president, shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United States.

RESOLUTION OF THE TWO HOUSES OF THE LEGISLATURE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

RESPECTING THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U. STATES.

DECEMBER 18, 1829.*

(Pamphlet Laws, Reports and Resolutions of 1829, p. 27.)

In the Senate, December 18, 1829.

Resolved, That the Clerks of the two houses and the Secretary of State, do examine their respective offices, and report to the Legislature at its next session, whether this State has ever acted upon, and accepted or rejected the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, set down as the 13th, in the authorized edition of the laws of the United States, at page 74 of the first volume, (published pursuant to the act of Congress of the 18th. April, 1814.)

Resolved, That the said officers do likewise examine and report, whether this State has ever acted upon and accepted those two amendments of the Constitution of the United States, contained in the above mentioned edition of the laws of the United States, at page 72 of the first volume, and numbered 1 and 2.

Ordered, That the resolution be sent to the House of Representatives.

By order of the Senate,

JOB JOHNSTON, C. S.

In the House of Representatives, December 18, 1829.

Resolved, That the House do concur with the Senate. Ordered, That it be returned.

By order of the House,

R. ANDERSON, C. H. R.

* The Editor can find no report made in conformity thereto.

Legislature.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

JUNE 3d, 1790.

We, the Delegates of the people of the State of South-Carolina in General Convention met, do ordain and establish this Constitution for its government.

ARTICLE I.

Sec. 1. The legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of RepreRepresenta- sentatives. tives how

chosen and for what time.

Sec. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen by ballot, every second year, by the citizens of this State, qualified as in this Constitution is provided.

Sec. 3. The several election districts in this State shall elect the following number for representatives, viz :

Sec. 4. Every free white man, of the age of twenty-one years, being a Qualification. citizen of this State, and having resided therein two years previous to the day of election, and who hath a freehold of fifty acres of land, or a town lot, of which he hath been legally seized and possessed at least six months before such election, or, not having such freehold or town lot, hath been a resident in the election district, in which he offers to give his vote, six months before the said election, and hath paid a tax the preceding year of three shillings sterling towards the support of this government, shall have a right to vote for a member or members, to serve in either branch of the legislature, for the election district in which he holds such property or is so resident.

Sec. 5. The returning officer, or any other person present, entitled to How proved or vote, may require any person who shall offer his vote at an election, to examined. produce a certificate of his citizenship, and a receipt from the tax collector of his having paid a tax, entitling him to vote, or to swear or affirm, that he is duly qualified to vote agreeably to this constitution.

elected.

Sec. 6. No person shall be eligible to a seat in the House of Representa- Who may or tives, unless he is a free white man of the age of twenty-one years, and may not be hath been a citizen and resident in this State three years previous to his election. If a resident in the election district, he shall not be eligible to a seat in the House of Representatives, unless he be legally seized and possessed, in his own right, of a settled freehold estate of five hundred acres of land, and ten negroes; or of a real estate of the value of one hundred and fifty pounds sterling, clear of debt. If a non-resident, he shall be legally seized and possessed of a settled freehold estate therein, of the value of five hundred pounds sterling, clear of debt.

Sec. 7. The Senate shall be composed of members to be chosen for four Senators chos'n years, in the following proportions, by the citizens of this State, qualified for four years. to elect members to the House of Representatives, at the same time, in

the same manner, and at the same places where they shall vote for

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sentatives, viz:

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