CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
1787.
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Article. 1. The Congress. 2. The Executive. 3. The Judiciary. 4. The States and Territories. |
Article. 5. Amendments. 6. Miscellaneous Provisions. 7. Ratification. |
ARTICLES IN AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION.
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Article. 1. Religious and political freedom. 2. The right to bear arms. 3. Quartering soldiers. 4. Unreasonable searches and seizures. 5. Trials, how initiated. 6. Rights of the accused. 7. Trial by jury. 8. Excessive bail, fines and punishments. |
Article. 9. Rules of construction. 10. Rights reserved to states and people. 11. Limitation of judicial power. 12. Election of president and vice-president. 13. Slavery. 14. Citizenship-Representation-Official disabilities-Public debt. 15. The right of suffrage. |
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
Article 1.-The Congress.
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Section. 1. Legislative powers. 2. House of Representatives. 3. Senate 4. Elections. 5. Membership-Quorum. |
Section. 6. Compensation-Privileges. 7. Bills and veto. 8. Powers of congress. 9. Habeas corpus-Taxes. 10. Restrictions upon states. |
Legislative powers. § 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives.
House of representatives. § 2. The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.
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.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. 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 of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty
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