PART 7 - The Constitution of the Nation

PART 7 - The Constitution of the Nation

Article III - The Judicial Branch

Section 1 - Judicial powers
The judicial Power of the Nation shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Parliament may from time to time establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their time in office.
Section 2 - Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials
Clause 1.  The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this constitution, the laws of the Nation, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Nation shall be a party; to controversies between two or more Districts; between a District and citizens of another District; between citizens of different Districts; between citizens of the same District claiming lands under grants of different Districts, and between a District, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
Clause 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a District shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Parliament shall make.
Clause 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the District where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any District, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Parliament may by law have directed.
Section 3 - Treason
Clause 1. Treason against the Nation, shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No Person shall be convicted of treason without the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Clause 2. The Parliament shall have power to declare the punishment for treason, but no attainder of treason shall permit the confiscation or forfeiture of property, except that of the person so convicted, and all properties otherwise belonging to the direct line of inheritance of the person shall be left intact as to their ownership.