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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PREAMBLE. Object of the union......
Constitution ordained by the people..
Nature of the union.....
Its relation to the States..
Page.
1
6
5
ARTICLE I.
Section 1. Legislative power, where vested....
8
Section 2. The House of Representatives..
Who may be Representatives......
9
Representatives, how apportioned, chosen, etc.
House to choose Speaker and officers.
10
Notes of decisions as to direct taxes, etc..
Section 3. The Senate, how composed ....
13
Senators, how chosen and classified; vacancies, how
fillod; who eligible; Senate, how constituted; Vice-
President to preside......
Impeachment of President or officers.
14
Section 4. Election of Senators and Representatives; by
States, but Congress may regulate..
15
Meeting of Congress.
16
Section 5. Each house to judge of election, qualifications,
etc., of members
17
And determine rules, punish and expel members
Each, to keep journal; yeas and nays to be entered;
adjournments ....
19
Section 6. Compensation; privilege from arrest; disability
to hold other offices...
19, 20, 21
21
22
23
24
34
37
98
100
101
102
103
107
110
111
Section 7. Revenue bills to originate in House of Repre-
sentatives.....
Approval or veto of bills..
Passage of same over veto
Section 8. Powers of Congress...
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises;
same to be uniform; decisions
To borrow money
To regulate commerce.
To establish upiform rule of naturalization..
To establish uniform bankruptcy laws
To coin money, regulate value, etc,
To fix standard of weights and measures.
To punish counterfeiting .....
To establish postoffices and post roads
To authorize patents and copyrights.
To constitute inferior courts.....
To define and punish piracy, etc..
To declare war, grænt letters of marque, and make
rules as to captures.
To raise and support armies
To provide and maintain a navy.
To make rules, etc., for land and naval forces..
To provide for calling out the militia.
And organizing, arming, etc., the same.
To exercise exclusive legislation over seat of govern-
ment - District of Columbia....
To make all laws necessary to carry powers granted
into effect ......
Section 9. The slave trade, when may be prohibited.....
Habeas corpus not to be suspended, except, when..
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law to be passed
Capitation or direct taxes to be laid according to census
No tax or duty to be laid on exports.....
No preference of ports of States; vessels to enter and
clear free...
113
118
119
120
121
124
128
132
133
134
140
141
142
Money to be drawn only on appropriation....
143
No titles of nobility permitted ......
144
No titles, presents or offices to be accepted from for-
eign States, etc., without consent of Congress....... 144
Section 10. States prohibited from entering into treaties,
alliances, etc......
Granting letters of marque, coining money, making
legal tender, etc., passing bills of attainder, ex post
facto laws, impairing contracts or granting letters
of nobility......
Decisions on section ....
144-200
No State to lay tonnage tax, keep troops or ships, enter
into compact with other States or foreign powers, or
engage in war unless, etc....
201
ARTICLE II.
Section 1. Executive power vested in President.
Electors of President, how appointed .....
Electors of President, when appointed
Electors to meet, election, how held..
Who eligible as President..
Devolution of office, compensation, oath...
Section 2. Powers of President, commander-in-chief.
Treaty-making, diplomatic and official appointments..
Filling vacancies
Section 3. Duties and powers as to Congress.
Section 4. Removal on impeachment.....
206
209
207
211
212
213
217
219
220
221
ARTICLE III,
Section 1. Judicial power, how vested....
In Supreme and inferior courts...
Section 2. Extent of judicial power...
Trial of crimes to be by jury; place of trial....
Decisions as to judicial power, etc....
Section 3. Treason defined and how proved.
222
223
223-241
241
ARTICLE IV.
Section 1. Full faith and credit to be given to public acts,
records and judicial proceedings of States ....
243
Congress to provide for proving same
Decisions as to same
243-252
Section 2. Privileges and immunities of citizens in the sev- eral States ......
25 2
Decisions as to same..
252-200
Fugitives from justice, how delivered up.
261
Fugitive slaves to be delivered up, when....
264
Section 3. New States may be admitted .......
266
Congress to dispose of and regulate territories and
property......
269
Decisions as to same.
269-279
Section 4. Guaranty to States of republican form of govern-
ment.....
279
Protect them against invasion...
And against domestic violence...
ARTICLE V.
Constitution, how amended...
282
ARTICLE VI.
Debts of confederation assumed......
Constitution, laws and treaties supreme....
Oath to support, to be taken.....
No religious test required....
283
ARTICLE VII.
Ratification of Constitution
291