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THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




Preamble

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.

Article I · The Legislative Branch

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.

Article II · The Executive Branch

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.

Article III · The Judicial Branch

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.

Article IV · State relationships, Provisions of Union.

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.

Article V · Amendments to the Constitution

· Amending the constitution; proviso

Article VI · Regarding Debts, Federal supremacy, Oath of Office

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

Article VII · Ratification of this Constitution

· Ratification of this Constitution.

The Bill of Rights

Amendment I · No Religious establishment; Freedom of speech, of the press; Right to petition

Amendment II · Right to keep and bear arms

Amendment III · Limiting quartering of soldiers

Amendment IV · Limiting search and seasure

Amendment V · Concerning prosecution; Trial and punishment; Compensation for private property

Amendment VI · Right to a speedy trial; Witnesses, etc.; Right to council

Amendment VII · Right of trial by jury

Amendment VIII · Excessive bail, fines, Cruel and unusual punishment prohibited

Amendment IX · Rule of construction of Constitution

Amendment X · Powers reserved for States, and for the People

Amendment XI · Certain limits on judicial power

Amendment XII · Choosing the President and Vice President.

Amendment XIII · Slavery Abolished.

Amendment XIV · Rights of Citizenship shall not be abridged.

Amendment XV · Race no bar to voting rights.

Amendment XVI · Income taxes authorized.

Amendment XVII · Senators to be elected by popular vote.

Amendment XVIII · Prohibition of Liquor.

Amendment XIX · Woman's right to vote.

Amendment XX · Terms of office: President, Vice President, Senators, and Representatives.

1 The terms of the President and Vice-President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the third day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
2 The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the third day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
3 If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice-President elect shall become President.
If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice-President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice-President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice-President shall have qualified.
4 The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice-President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
5 Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
6 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.

-- Proposed --
March 2, 1932.
-- Ratified --
January 23, 1933.

Amendment XXI · Repeal of Liquor Prohibition.

Amendment XXII · Limiting Presidential term of office.

Amendment XXIII · Presidential vote for District of Columbia.

Amendment XXIV · No poll tax in federal elections.

Amendment XXV · Succession in case of disability of the President.

Amendment XXVI · Voting age lowered to 18 years.

Amendment XXVII · Congressional pay raises.


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