UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
PREAMBLE
ARTICLE I.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
Section
1. Legislative power, where vested.
2. House of representatives; how composed; eligibility; term; apportionment; officers; impeachment.
3. Senate; how composed; classification; eligibility; term; officers; impeachment.
4. Senators and representatives, election of; sessions of congress.
5. Membership; quorum; rules of order; discipline and expulsion; journals; yeas and nays; adjournments.
6. Compensation; privileges; ineligibility.
7. Revenue bills; how a bill becomes law; veto.
8. Powers of congress enumerated.
9. Limitations on power of congress; title of nobility.
10. Limitation on power of states.
ARTICLE II.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
1. Executive power vested in president; term; election; eligibility; successor; compensation; oath.
2. President chief of army and navy; may require opinions from cabinets, grant pardons, make treaties, appoint ambassadors, judges, etc., and fill vacancies.
3, President’s message; he may convene and adjourn congress, receive foreign ministers; execute laws; commission officers.
4. Removal of president, vice president and civil officers.
ARTICLE III.
JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.
1. Judicial power; tenure and compensation of judges.
2. Jurisdiction; original and appellate; criminal trials, venue, jury.
3. Treason; proof and punishment.
ARTICLE IV.
1. Full faith and credit provision.
2. Privileges of citizens; extradition of criminals and slaves.
3. New states; territories and property of United States.
4. Republican form of government and protection guaranteed to states.
ARTICLE V.
Constitution, how amended.
ARTICLE VI.
Public debt validated; supreme law defined; constitutional oath, who to take; no religious test.
ARTICLE VII.
Adoption of constitution.
AMENDMENTS
Article
I. State church; freedom of worship, of speech, of assemblage and of petition.
II. Right to keep and bear arms.
III. Quartering of soldiers.
IV. Searches and seizures.
V. Indictments; second jeopardy; self-incrimination; due process of law, private property for public use.
VI. Conduct of criminal prosecutions.
VII. Jury in civil cases.
VIII. Excessive bail and fines and cruel punishment prohibited.
IX. Rule of constitutional construction.
X. Constitutional construction; rights of states.
XI. Constitutional construction; judicial power limited.
XII. Election of president and vice president.
XIII. Slavery abolished.
XIV. Citizenship; representatives apportioned; official disability; public debt validated; confederate debt repudiated.
XV. Suffrage granted to Negroes.
XVI. Income taxes authorized.
XVII. Popular election of senators; vacancies in senate.
XVIII. Prohibition of intoxicating beverages.
XIX. Suffrage granted to women.
XX. Terms of president, vice president, senators and representatives; sessions of congress; successor to president and vice president.
XXI. Repeal of eighteenth amendment; importation of intoxicating liquors in violation of state laws prohibited.
XXI. Repeal of eighteenth amendment; importation of intoxicating liquors in violation of state laws prohibited.
XXII. Prohibition of third term for president.
XXIII. Representation granted in the electoral college to the District of Columbia.
XXIV. Poll taxes prohibited as to national elections.
XXV. Disability of president and selection of a vice president.
XXVI. Right to vote at 18.
XXVII. No compensation change between elections.
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.
Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New-Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New-Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North-Carolina five, South-Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
