We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Section 1 · Legislative powers, general

Section 2 · The House of Representatives; How Chosen; Qualifications; Representatives, taxes, Apportionment; Enumeration; Vacancies; Choosing officers; Impeachment.

Section 3 · The Senate; How choosen; Qualifications; President of the Senate, voting; President pro temp, officers; Power to try impeachments; Impeachment of President.

Section 4 · Senate elections, Legislative sessions.

Section 5 · Membership, quorum, ajournments, rules; Power to punish or expel; the Journal.

Section 6 · Compensation, priviledges, disqualifications.

Section 7 · Origin of revenue bills; Veto, Override, Limits; Orders, concurrent resolutions, etc.

Section 8 · Specific Powers of Congress.

Section 9 · Migration or Importation of certain persons; Habious Corpus, Bills of attainder, etc; Taxes, aportionment; No Export duty; No commercial preference; Money, Treasury, etc.; No titler Nobility; Officers not to receive presents, etc.

Section 10 · States not to excersize certain powers.

Section 1 · President, term of office, electors, qualifications, succession, compensation; Oath of office.

Section 2 · President as Commander in Chief; the cabinet; power of pardon; power to treat; nomination of certian officers.

Section 3 · President, communicates to congress, may convene and ajourn congress, receives ambassadors, executes laws, commissions officers.

Section 4 · All civil offices forfeit for certain crimes.

Section 1 · Powers, Tenure, Compensation.

Section 2 · Judicial powers enumerated; Jurisdiction of Supreme Court; appellate jurisdiction; Trial by jury, placement of trials.

Section 3 · Treason, defined, proof required, punishment for.

Section 1 · Each state to respect the laws of other states.

Section 2 · Priveledges of citizens; Extradition of fugitives.

Section 3 · Admission of new states; Power of congress over territories, other property.

Section 4 · Republican form of government guarenteed, each state to be protected.

· Amending the constitution; proviso

· Certain Debts, etc. remain valid; Supremacy of the Constitution, treaties and laws of United States; Oath to support Constitution; No religious test.

· Ratification of this Constitution.

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; 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 list 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. —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. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

-- Proposed --
December 9, 1803.
-- Ratified --
June 15, 1804.