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DIGEST OF THE CONSTITUTION.
| Art. | Sec. | Pa. | |
| by the President, or, if disapproved, shall be passed by two thirds of each house, | 1 | 7 | 5 |
| Bills not returned in ten days, unless an adjournment intervene, shall be considered as approved, | 1 | 7 | 5 |
| Capitation Tax.—(See Tax.) | 1 | 9 | 7 |
| Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten years, | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Claims of the United States, or of the several states, not to be prejudiced by any construction of the Constitution, | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| Citizens of each state shall be entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states, | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| Commerce, regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform, | 1 | 9 | 7 |
| Congress, vested with legislative power, | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| May alter the regulations of state legislatures concerning elections of senators and representatives, except as to place of choosing senators, | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Shall assemble once every year, | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| May provide for cases of removal of President and Vice-President, | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| May determine the time of choosing electors of President and Vice-President, | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| May invest the appointment of inferior officers in the President alone, in the courts of law, or the heads of departments, | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| May from time to time establish courts inferior to the Supreme Court, | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| May (with one limitation) declare the punishment of treason, | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| May prescribe the manner of proving the acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each state, | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| The assent of required to the formation of a new state within the jurisdiction of any other, or by the junction of two or more, | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| May propose amendments to the Constitution, or, on application, call a convention, | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| The assent of required to the admission of new states into the Union, | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| To lay and collect duties on imposts and excises, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To borrow money, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To regulate commerce, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and naturalization, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To coin money, regulate the value of coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To punish counterfeiting, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To establish post-offices and post-roads, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To authorize patents to authors and inventors, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To define and punish piracies, felonies on the high seas, and offences against the laws of nations, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To declare war, grant letters of marque, and make rules concerning captures, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To raise and support armies, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To provide and maintain a navy, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To make rules for the government of the army and navy, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To call for the militia in certain cases, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To organize, arm, and discipline, the militia, | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| To exercise exclusive legislation over ten miles square, | 1 | 8 | 7 |
| To pass laws necessary to carry the enumerated powers into effect, | 1 | 8 | 7 |
| To dispose of, and make rules concerning, the territory or other property of the United States, | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| Constitution, formed by the people of the United States, Preamble, | 1 | ||
| How amended, | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| And the laws under it, and treaties, declared to be the supreme law, | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| Rendered operative by the ratification of the Conventions of nine states, | 7 | 1 | 15 |
| Conventions for proposing amendments to Constitution, | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| Court, Supreme, its original and appellate jurisdiction, | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| Courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, may be ordained by Congress, | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| Crimes, persons accused of, fleeing from justice, may be demanded, | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| Debts against the Confederation to be valid against the United States under this Constitution, | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| Duties on exports prohibited, | 6 | 9 | 7 |
| On imports and exports, imposed by states, shall enure to the treasury of the United States | 1 | 10 | 8 |
