§ 1. There shall be a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
who together with the other Judges thereof, shall hold the
office during good behaviour, removable only by conviction
on impeachment for some crime or misdemeanor. Each Judge
shall have a competent salary to be paid to him at stated
times, and not to be diminished during his continuance in
office.
The Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction in all
causes in which the United States shall be a party, in all
controversies between the United States, and a particular
State, or between two or more States, except such as relate
to a claim of territory between the United States, and one
or more States, which shall be determined in the mode
prescribed in the VI article; in all cases affecting foreign
Ministers, Consuls and Agents; and an appellate jurisdiction
both as to law and fact in all cases which shall concern the
Citizens of foreign nations, in all questions between the
Citizens of different States, and in all others in which the
fundamental rights of this Constitution are involved,
subject to such exceptions as are herein contained and to
such regulations as the Legislature shall provide.
The Judges of all Courts which may be constituted by the
Legislature shall also hold their places during good
behaviour, removeable only by conviction on impeachment for
some crime or misdemeanor, and shall have competent salaries
to be paid at stated times and not to be diminished during
their continuance in office; but nothing herein contained
shall be construed to prevent the Legislature from
abolishing such Courts themselves.
All crimes, except upon impeachment, shall be tried by a
Jury of twelve men; and if they shall have been committed
within any State, shall be tried within such State; and all
civil causes arising under this constitution of the like
kind with those which have been heretofore triable by Jury
in the respective States, shall in like manner be tried by
jury; unless in special cases the Legislature shall think
proper to make different provision, to which provision the
concurrence of two thirds of both Houses shall be necessary.
§ 2. Impeachments of the President and Vice President of the
U. States, members of the Senate, the Governours and
Presidents of the several States, the Principal or Chief
Officers of the Departments enumerated in the 10 §. of the
4^{th} Article, Ambassadors and other like Public Ministers,
the Judges of the Supreme Court, Generals, and Admirals of
the Navy shall be tried by a Court to consist of the Judges
of the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice or first or
Senior Judge of the superior Court of law in each State, of
whom twelve shall constitute a Court. A majority of the
Judges present may convict. All other persons shall be tried
on impeachment by a court to consist of the Judges of the
Supreme Court and six Senators drawn by lot, a majority of
whom may convict.
Impeachments shall clearly specify the particular offence
for which the party accused is to be tried, and judgment
on conviction upon the trial thereof shall be either
removal from office singly, or removal from office and
disqualification for holding any future office or place
of trust; but no Judgment on impeachment shall prevent
prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law;
provided that no Judge concerned in such conviction shall
sit as Judge on the second trial. The Legislature may remove
the disabilities incurred by conviction on impeachment.