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.