The Constitution of the U. S. A.The complete text of the Constitution of the U.S. and all 27 amendments. Includes the listing of the names of the ratifying states with dates of ratification. Also provides information on proposed amendments approved by the Congress, but not yet ratified by the states. |
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... terms of union agreed to in 1787 . The debates in the State ratification conventions of 1787 and 1788 made clear the need to provide amendments to the basic framework drafted in Philadelphia . Beginning with Massachu- setts , a number ...
... terms of union agreed to in 1787 . The debates in the State ratification conventions of 1787 and 1788 made clear the need to provide amendments to the basic framework drafted in Philadelphia . Beginning with Massachu- setts , a number ...
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... Term of Years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three fifths of all other Persons.2 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 ...
... Term of Years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three fifths of all other Persons.2 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 ...
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... Term than two Years ; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy ; 14 To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces ; 15 To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union , suppress ...
... Term than two Years ; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy ; 14 To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces ; 15 To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union , suppress ...
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... Term of four Years , and , together with the Vice President , chosen for the same Term , be elected , as follows 2 Each State shall appoint , in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct , a Number of Electors , equal to the ...
... Term of four Years , and , together with the Vice President , chosen for the same Term , be elected , as follows 2 Each State shall appoint , in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct , a Number of Electors , equal to the ...
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... term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution . Proposal And Ratification The seventeenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was pro- posed to the legislatures of the several States by ...
... term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution . Proposal And Ratification The seventeenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was pro- posed to the legislatures of the several States by ...
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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 9 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 9 - 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 legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 19 - ... 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 25 - Whenever the President transmits to the president pro tempore of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as acting President.
Page 30 - 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 2 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Page 21 - 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 8 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. 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...
Page 10 - 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 confederation. 2. -This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be...