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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 27, 1864.— Read first 
 and second times, referred to the Judiciary Committee, and ordered 
 to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. J. T. Leach, of North Carolina.] 
 
 .RESOLUTIONS 
 
 ■ Declaring the supremacy of the civil over the military law. 
 
 1 Whereas, The preamble to the Constitution of the Confede- 
 
 'i rate States declare the purpose for which the States, acting in 
 
 .i their sovereign and independent character, entered the federal 
 
 4 compact, and that any violation of the terms is an outrage upon 
 
 .5 the rights of the States, subversive of justice, and a flagrant 
 
 6 usurpation of power by Congress ; and whereas, the delegation 
 
 7 of power to the President by the Congress, under the 
 
 8 suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, finds no sanction 
 
 9 in the Constitution, is unjust, oppressive and subversive 
 10 of the letter and spirit of the Constitution; therefore, 
 
 1 Resolved, That the Congress had no right under the ^uspen- • 
 
 2 sion of the writ of habeas corptis, to authorize the President to 
 
 3 arrest, imprison and condemn the citizens of the Confederate 
 
 4 States, without due process of law, as laid down in article I, 
 
 5 section 16 of the Constitution of the Confederate States. 
 
2 
 
 1 Resolved, That treason, as laid down iu article 3, section 3, of 
 
 2 tlie Confederate Constitution, is clearly defined, and the punishment 
 
 3 annexed i:> applicable only to the crime of levying war against 
 4« the Confederate States, or in adhering to their enemies, giving 
 5 them aid and comfort ; .and that Congress, an(\ not the President, 
 fi ha? the righ.t t--* neohire the punishment of trea.-^cn.