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ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.

thing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claim of the United States, or of any particular State....... STATE. The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and, on application of the Legislature or of the Executive, (when the Legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence STATE. No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate... STATE. The judges in every State shall be bound by the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, any thing in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding STATE Legislatures. The members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution..

STATE. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. STATE. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public

trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law...

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STATE. In choosing the President, (by the House of Reps.,) the vote shall be taken by States,
the Representatives from each State having one vote: a quorum for this purpose shall
consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the
States shall be necessary to a choice.

STATE. The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote, by ballot, for President
and Vice President, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with
themselves

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STATES. Representatives in Congress to be chosen every two years by the people of the States STATES. Representatives and direct taxes to be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers..

STATES entitled to representatives in the first Congress were. The..

New Hampshire, 3; Massachusetts, 8; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1; Connecticut, 5; New York, 6; New Jersey, 4; Pennsylvania, 8; Delaware, 1;

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Maryland, 6; Virginia, 10; North Carolina, 5; South Carolina, 5; Georgia, 3. Whole
number, 65....
STATES. Congress shall have power to regulate commerce among the several States and with
the Indian tribes..
STATES. Congress shall have power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the
militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the
United States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and
the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress...
STATES. Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever,
over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States,
and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States;
and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature
of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals,
dock-yards, and other needful buildings..

STATES. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall
think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax
or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person...
STATES. The President shall not receive, during the time for which he shall have been elected,
any emolument from any of the States.

STATES. The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the militia of the several States when

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called into the actual service of the United States.
STATES. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall
be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed
by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legis-
latures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress...
STATES. The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall
propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the Legislatures of two-
thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in
either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when
ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by conventions in
three-fourths thereof.

STATES. The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same.....................

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ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.

STATES. The Constitution adopted in Convention by the unanimous consent of the deputies
from all the States present, the 17th day of September, A. D. 1787, and of the Indepen-
dence of the United States of America the twelfth. The following States being repre-
sented: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia...
STATES. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by

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it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people..
STATES. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in
law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of
another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State
SUBJECTS. The judicial power shall extend to all cases between a State, or the citizens thereof,
and foreign States, citizens or subjects..
SUBJECTS of any foreign State. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed
to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United
States by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State
SUFFRAGE. No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate
SUITS. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars,
the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise
re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common

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law
SUITS. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in
law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of
another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State...

SUNDAYS excepted. Ten days allowed the President to return a bill, resolution, &c.......
SUPPORT the Constitution. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the mem-
bers of the several State Legislatures, and all Executive and judicial officers, both of the
United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support
this Constitution, &c...
SUPREME Court. Congress shall have power to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme

Court..

SUPREME Court. (See appointment of Judges of, &c.).

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SUPREME Court. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme
Court, and in such Inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and
establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior courts, shall hold their offices
during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation
which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office..

SUPREME Court. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and
those in which a State shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.
In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdic-
Congress shall make..
tion, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the

SUPREME law of the land. (See Constitution-Laws-Treaties.)..

TAX. A tax or duty on imported persons (slaves) might have been imposed up to 1808. TAX. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.

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TAX. No amendment made prior to 1808, shall in any manner affect the preceding clause..
TAX. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State....
TAXED. Indians not taxed excluded from representative numbers..
TAXES. Representatives and direct taxes to be apportioned among the States according to their
respective numbers.

TAXES. Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes..

TENDER. No State shall make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts
TERM of election of Representatives in Congress-to be chosen every two years..

TERM of ten years. The census shall be taken within every term of ten years subsequent to the
first

TERM of citizenship as qualification for a Representative in Congress-seven years

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TERM of years. Representative numbers include those persons bound to service for a term of
years

TERM of office of Senators in Congress-to be chosen for six years
TERM of citizenship as qualification for a Senator in Congress-nine years.
TERM of office. The President shall hold his office during the term of four years, and the Vice
President chosen for the same term

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TERRITORY. Congress shall exercise exclusive legislation over all places (or territory) acquired for public purposes by cession of particular States..

TERRITORY. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and

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regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States.
TEST. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust
under the United States

TESTIMONY. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses

to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.......
THINGS. No warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be
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THREE-fifths of all other persons (slaves) included in representative numbers.
THREE-fourths. Amendments to the Constitution must be ratified by the Legislatures or Con-
ventions of three-fourths of the States...

TIME of choosing electors may be determined by Congress...

TITLE of nobility. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person
holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress,
accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king,
prince, or foreign State...

TITLE of nobility. No State shall grant any title of nobility.

TONNAGE. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage
TRAINING the militia. The authority of training the militia reserved to the States..
TRANQUILLITY. Constitution established to insure domestic tranquillity
TREASON. For treason a Senator or Representative may be arrested.

TREASON. All civil officers shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction
of treason, &c.

TREASON against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adher-
ing to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of
treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession
in open court..

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder

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