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.

1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

2 Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

3 No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.

4 The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

5 The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

-- Proposed --
June 13, 1866.
-- Ratified --
July 9, 1868.

*Reconstruction Amendments:
The XIII, XIV, and XV amendments are often referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments because they were drafted by the Republican majority congress following the Civil War. These were intended to abolish slavery
and to extend civil rights to former slaves.