The Constitution of the United States of America as Amended: Unratified Amendments, Analytical IndexHouse of Representatives Document No. 108-95. Presented by Mr. Ney. June 20, 2003. Printed pursuant to H. Con. Res. 139. Includes a historical note. 108th Congress, 1st Session. |
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... The division between small States that wished to perpetuate the equal represen- tation of States in the Continental Congress and the large States VI that proposed representation proportional to population threatened to bring ( V )
... The division between small States that wished to perpetuate the equal represen- tation of States in the Continental Congress and the large States VI that proposed representation proportional to population threatened to bring ( V )
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... equal representation of the States in a Senate elected by State legislature and proportional representation in a popularly - elected House of Representatives . The conflict between large and small States disappeared in the early years ...
... equal representation of the States in a Senate elected by State legislature and proportional representation in a popularly - elected House of Representatives . The conflict between large and small States disappeared in the early years ...
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... equal to the whole Num- ber of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be en- titled in the Congress : but no Senator or Representative , or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States , shall be ...
... equal to the whole Num- ber of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be en- titled in the Congress : but no Senator or Representative , or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States , shall be ...
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... equal Votes , the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.8 4 The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors , and the Day on which they shall give their Votes ; which Day shall be the same throughout the ...
... equal Votes , the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.8 4 The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors , and the Day on which they shall give their Votes ; which Day shall be the same throughout the ...
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... equal Suffrage in the Senate . ARTICLE . VI . 1 All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into , before the Adoption of this Constitution , shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution , as under the ...
... equal Suffrage in the Senate . ARTICLE . VI . 1 All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into , before the Adoption of this Constitution , shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution , as under the ...
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Page 2 - ... Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. 2. 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. 3. [Representatives and direct taxes...
Page 8 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 15 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Page 9 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee 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...
Page 6 - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. 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...
Page 56 - Section 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Page 7 - Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Page 26 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 17 - 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...
Page 18 - SECTION 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.