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in such manner as it may by law provide, to form Staates to be admitted 
into the Confederacy. In all such territory, the institution of negro 
slavery, as ıt now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized 
and protected by Congress :and by the terıitorial government; and the 
inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have 
the right to take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by them in 
any.of the States or Territories of the Confederate States. 
_Seot. 4. The Confederate Staates shall guarantee to every State 
that now is or hereafter may become amemberofthis 
Confederacy, a Republican form etc. — U. sect. 4. 
Artiele V. 
Upon the demand of any three States, legally assembled in their 
several Conventions, the Congress shall summon a Convention of all the 
States, to take into consideration such amendments to the Constitution 
as the said States shäll concur in suggesting at the time when the said 
demand is made; and should any of the proposed amendments to the 
Constitution be agreed on by the said Convention — voting by States 
— and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of the 
several States, or by conventions in two-thirds thereof — as the one 
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the general con- 
vention — they shall thenceforward form a part of this Constitution. 
But no State shall, . without its consent, be deprivel of its equal re- 
presentation in the Senate. 
Artiele VI. 
1. The Government established by this Constitution is the successor 
of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, 
and all the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force until the 
same shall be repealed or modified; and all the officers appointed by 
the same shall remain in office until their successors are appointed and 
qualified, or the offices abolished. 
2.-U. 1. (nur statt „under the Confederation*: under the 
Provisional Government.) " 
3, —-T. 2. 
—-U.3, 
5. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall 
not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people ! 18 
ofthe several States. 
18 Bis auf die Schlussworte = U. Amendment 9.