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Preamble

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more
perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the
United States of America.

Article I.

Sect. 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested
in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a
Senate and a House of Representatives.

Sect. 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.
Representative 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 be law direct. The number of representative shall
not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall
have at least one representative; and until such enumeration
shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to
choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New-Jersey
four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia
ten, North-Carolina five, South-Carolina five, and Georgia
three.
When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the
Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to
fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose the Speaker and other
officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.

Sect. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of
two senators from each state chosen by the legislature thereof,
for six years and each senator shall have one vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the
first election, they hall be divided as equally as may be into
three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class
shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the
second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the
third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that
one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies
happen by resignation, or otherwise during the recess of the
legislature of any state, the Executive thereof may make
temporary appointments until the next meeting of the
Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the
age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the
United States, who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of
that state for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of
the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally
divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a
President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or
when he shall exercise the office of President of the United
States.
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.
When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or
affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried,
the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be
convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members
present.
Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than
to removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy
any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States;
but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and
subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment,
according to law.

Sect. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for
senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state
by the legislature thereof: but the Congress may at any time by
law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of
choosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and
such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless
they shall be law appoint a different day.

Sect. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the elections,
returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority
of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller
number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to
compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and
under such penalties as each house may provide.
Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish
its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence
of two-thirds, expel a member.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from
time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in
their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the
members either house on any question shall, at the desire of
one-fifth of those present be entered on the journal.
Neither house, during the session of Congress shall, without
the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor
to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be
sitting.

Sect. 6. The senators and representatives shall receive a
compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and
paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in
all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be
privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session
of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from
the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they
shall not be questioned in any other place.
No senator or representative shall, during the time for which
he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the
authority of the United States, which shall have been created,
or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such
time; and no person holding any office under the United States,
shall be a member of either house during his continuance in
office.

Sect. 7. All bill for raising revenue shall originate in the
house of representative; but the senate may propose or concur
with amendments as on other bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the house of representatives
and the senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to
the president of the United States; if he approve he shall sign
it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that
house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the
objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider
it. If after such reconsideration two-thirds of that house
shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with
the objections, to the other house, by which is shall likewise
be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that house,
it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both
houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of
the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on
the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not
be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted)
after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a
law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress
by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall
not be a law.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of
the Senate and House of Representative may be necessary (except
on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the
President of the United States;
and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by
him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by
two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives,
according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case
of a bill.

Sect. 8. The Congress shall have power
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay
the debts and provide for the common defence and general
welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and
excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the
several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform
laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United
States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin,
and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities
and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing
for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right
to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the
high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make
rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to
that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and
naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of
the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.;
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;
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 states in which the same
shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals,
dockyards, and other needful buildings; -And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for
carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other
powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the
United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

Sect. 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of
the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not
be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand
eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on
such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be
suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the
public safety require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in
proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed
to be taken.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any
state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of
commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of
another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be
obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
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.
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.

Sect. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or
confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin
money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver
coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder,
ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of
contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any
imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be
absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the
net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on
imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the
United States; all such laws shall be subject to the revision
and control of the Congress. No state shall, without the
consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or
ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or
compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage
in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as
will not admit of delay.

Article II.

Sect. 1. The executive power shall be vested in a president of
the United States of America. He shall hold his office during
the term of four years, and, together with the vice-president,
chosen for the same term, be elected as follows.
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature
thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole
number of senators and representatives to which the state may
be entitled in the Congress: but no senator or representative,
or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United
States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by
ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an
inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall
make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of
votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and
transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United
States, directed to the president of the senate. The president
of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of
representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall
then be counted. The person having the greatest number of
votes shall be the president, if such number be a majority of
the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more
than one who have such majority, and have am equal number of
electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such
majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the house of
representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them
for president; and if no person have a majority, then from the
five highest on the list the said house shall in like manner
choose the president. But in choosing the president, the votes
shall be taken by states, the representation 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. In every
case, after the choice of the president, the person having the
greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the
vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who
have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot
the vice-president.
The Congress may determine the time of the choosing the
electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes;
which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born 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.
In case of the removal of the president from office, or his
death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and
duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the
vice-president, and the Congress may by law provide for the
case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the
president and vice-president, declaring what officer shall then
act as president, and such officer shall act accordingly, until
the disability be removed, or a president be elected.
The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services,
a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished
during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he
shall not receive within that period any other emolument from
the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take
the following oath or affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute
the office of president of the United States, and will to the
best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the
constitution of the United States."

Sect. 2. The president shall be commander in chief of the army
and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the
several States, when called into the actual service of the
United States; he may require the opinion, in writing of the
principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon
any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices,
and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for
offenses against the United States, except in cases of
impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators
present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the
advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, judges of the supreme
court, and all other officers of the United States, whose
appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which
shall be established by law. But the Congress may by law vest
the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think
proper, in the president alone, in the courts of law, or in the
heads of departments.
The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that
may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting
commissions which shall expire at the end of their session.

Sect. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress
information of the state of the union, and recommend to their
consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and
expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both
houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between
them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn
them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive
ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that
the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the
officers of the United States.

Sect. 4. The president, vice-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.

Sect. 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 behavior, and shall, at stated time,
receive for their services a compensation which shall not be
diminished during their continuance in office.

Sect. 2.
1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and
equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United
States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their
authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public
ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall
be a party; to controversies between two or more States,
between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens
of different States, between citizens of the same State
claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a
State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or
subjects.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers
and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the
Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the
other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such
exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall
make.
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.

Sect. 3.
1. Treason against the United States shall consist only in
levying war against them, or in adhering 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.
2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of
treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of
blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person
attained.

Article IV

Sect. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to
the public act, records, and judicial proceedings of every
other State. And the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe
the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall
be proved, and the effect thereof.

Sect. 2.
1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunities of citizens in the several 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.
3. No person held to service or labor in one State, under the
laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of
any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service
or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to
whom such service or labor may be due.

Sect. 3.
1. 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.
2. 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.

Sect. 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 (when the legislature cannot
be convened), against domestic violence.

Article V.

The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both House 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, as the one
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the
Congress; provided [that no amendment which may be made prior
to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any
manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section
of the first Article;] and that no State, without its consent,
shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Article VI.

Sect. 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
Confederation.

Sect. 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 made, under the authority of the
United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the
judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the
constitution or laws of any State to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Sect. 3. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned,
and 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; but no religious test shall ever
be required as a qualification to any office or public trust
under the United States.

Article VII.

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

Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States
present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In
Witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

Attest: William Jackson, Secretary
George Washington
PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY FROM VIRGINIA

NEW HAMPSHIRE John Langdon Nicholas Gilman

MASSACHUSETTS Nathaniel Gorham Rufus King

NEW YORK Alexander Hamilton

NEW JERSEY William Livingston David Brearley William Paterson
Jonathan Dayton

PENNSYLVANIA Benjamin Franklin Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris
George Clymer Thomas Fitzsimons Jared Ingersoll James Wilson
Gouverneur Morris

DELAWARE George Read Gunning Bedford, Jr. John Dickinson
Richard Bassett Jacob Broom

MARYLAND James McHenry Dan of St. Thomas Jennifer Daniel
Carroll

VIRGINIA John Blair James Madison, Jr.

NORTH CAROLINA William Blount Richard Dobbs Spaight Hugh
Williamson

SOUTH CAROLINA John Rutledge Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney Pierce Butler

GEORGIA William Few Abraham Baldwin

AMENDMENTS

1st Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
government for a redress of grievances.

2nd Amendment
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.

3rd Amendment
No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quarters in any house,
without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a
manner to be prescribed by law.

4th Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated; and 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 seized.

5th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise
infamous, crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a
grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval
forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of
war, or public danger; nor shall any person be subject, for the
same offence, to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor
shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness
against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken
for public use, without just compensation.

6th Amendment
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; and to
be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be
confronted with the witnesses against him;
to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his
favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.

7th Amendment
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 law.

8th Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines
imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.

9th Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not
be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people.

10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to 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.

11th Amendment
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.

12th Amendment
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;
they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as
President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice
President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons
voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice
President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists
they shall sign, and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat
of the Government of the United States, directed to the
President of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall, in
the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives,
open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted;
the person having the greatest number of votes for President
shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the
whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such
a majority, then, from the persons having the highest numbers,
not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for a
President, the House of Representative shall choose
immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the
President, the votes shall be taken by States, the
representation 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. And if the House of
Representatives shall not choose a President, whenever the
right of choice shall devolve upon them, [before the fourth day
of March next following] the Vice President shall act as
President, as in case of death, or other constitutional
disability of the President. The person having the greatest
number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President,
if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors
appointed; and if no person have a majority, then, form the two
highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice
President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds
of the whole number of Senators; a majority of the whole number
shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally
ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that
of Vice-President of the United States.

13th Amendment
Sect. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction.
Sect. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

14th Amendment
Sect. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State
shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law, nor deny any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Sect. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several
States according to their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not
taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the
choice of electors for President and Vice President of the
United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and
judicial officers of a State, or the members of the legislature
thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such
State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation
in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of
such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male
citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Sect. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in
Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold
any office, civil or military, under the United States, or
under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a
member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or
as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or
judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of
the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the
enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of
each House, remove such disability.
Sect. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States,
authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of
pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection
or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United
States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation
incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United
States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave;
but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held
illegal and void.
Sect. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

15th Amendment
Sect. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
Sect. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation.

16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on
incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment
among the several States and without regard to any census or
enumeration.

17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two
Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for
six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors
in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for
electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When 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 appointment 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.

18th Amendment
Sect. 1. After one year from the ratification of this article
the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors
within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation
thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the
jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby
prohibited.
Sect. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have
concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
Sect. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of the several States, as provided in the
Constitution, within seven years of the date of the submission
hereof to the States by Congress.

19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

20th Amendment
Sect. 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall
end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of
Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January,
of the years in which such terms would have ended if this
article had not been ratified; and the terms of their
successors shall then begin.
Sect. 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every
years, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of
January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Sect. 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term
of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice
President-elect shall become President. If a 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
until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Sect. 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the
death of any of the persons from whom the House of
Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of
choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the
death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a
Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved
upon them.
Sect. 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of
October following the ratification of this article.
Sect. 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the
date of its submission.

21st Amendment
Sect. 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the
Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Sect. 2. The transportation or importation into any State,
Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or
use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws
thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Sect. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
conventions in the several States, as provided in the
Constitution, within seven years from the date of the
submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

22d Amendment
Sect. 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. But this Article shall not apply to any person
holding the office of President when this Article was proposed
by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be
holding the office of President, or acting as President, during
the term within which his Article becomes operative from
holding the office of President or acting as President during
the remainder of such term.
Sect. 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within
seven years from the date of its submission to the States by
the Congress.

23rd Amendment
Sect. 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of
the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress
may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to
the whole number of Senators and Representative in Congress to
which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in
no event more than the least populous State; they shall be
considered, for the purposes of the election of President and
Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they
shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided
by the twelfth article of amendment.
Sect. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation.

24th Amendment
Sect. 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.
Sect. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation.

25th Amendment
Sect. 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or
of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become
President.
Sect. 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice
President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who
shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both
Houses of Congress.
Sect. 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro
tempore of the Senate and the Speakers 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.
Sect. 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either
the principal officers of the executive departments or of such
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the
President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives their written declaration that the
President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his
office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers
and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro
tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives his written declaration that no inability
exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office
unless the Vice President and a majority of either the
principal officers of the executive department or of such other
body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days
to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives their written declaration that the
President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his
office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling
within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session.
If the Congress, within twenty-one days after Congress is
required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both
Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and
duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to
discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the
President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

26th Amendment
Sect. 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are
eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of
age.
Sect. 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation.

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INDEX TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Ability, 6
Abraham, 10
Abridge, 12
Abridged, 13, 14, 15, 16
Abridging, 10
Absence, 2
Absent, 2
Absolutely, 5
Accept, 5
Acceptance, 4
According, 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12
Accordingly, 6, 14
Account, 5, 13, 14, 16
Accusation, 11
Accused, 11
Act, 6, 8, 12, 14
Acted, 15
Acting, 15, 16
Acts, 8
Actual, 1, 6, 11
Actually, 5
Adding, 1
Adhering, 8
Adjourn, 2, 7
Adjournment, 3, 7
Admiralty, 7
Admit, 4, 5
Admitted, 8
Adoption, 6, 9
Advice, 6
Affect, 9, 13
Affecting, 7
Affirm, 6
Affirmation, 2, 6, 9, 10
Age, 1, 2, 6, 13, 16
Agree, 3
Agreement, 5
Aid, 8, 13
Alexander, 10
Alliance, 5
Alter, 2
Am, 5
Ambassadors, 6, 7
Amendment, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Amendments, 3, 9, 10
America, 1, 5, 9
Answer, 10
Appellate, 7
Application, 8, 9
Apply, 15
Appoint, 2, 5, 6, 14, 15
Appointed, 3, 5, 12, 15
Appointment, 4, 7, 13
Appointments, 2, 7
Apportioned, 1, 12
Apportionment, 13
Appropriate, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Appropriation, 4
Appropriations, 5
Approve, 3
Approved, 3
Arising, 7, 11
Armies, 4
Arming, 4
Arms, 10
Army, 6
Arrest, 3
Arsenals, 4
Article, 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Articles, 4
Arts, 4
Ascertained, 3, 11
Assemble, 2, 10, 14, 16
Assembled, 1
Assembling, 16
Assistance, 11
Assume, 13, 16
Attainder, 4, 5, 8
Attained, 1, 2, 6, 8
Attendance, 2, 3
Attest, 9
Authority, 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 13
Authorized, 2, 13
Authors, 4

Bail, 11
Baldwin, 10
Ballot, 5, 6, 11, 12
Ballots, 11
Bankruptcies, 4
Basis, 13
Bassett, 10
Bear, 10, 13
Become, 3, 4, 14, 16
Becomes, 13, 15
Bedford, 10
Begin, 14
Beginning, 14
Behavior, 2, 7
Being, 3, 10, 13
Belonging, 8
Benjamin, 10
Best, 6
Beverage, 14
Bill, 3, 4, 5
Bills, 3, 5
Blair, 10
Blessing, 1
Blood, 8
Blount, 10
Body, 16
Born, 6, 12
Borrow, 3
Both, 3, 6, 7, 9, 16
Bound, 1, 5, 9
Bounties, 13
Branch, 1, 13
Breach, 3
Brearley, 10
Bribery, 7
Broom, 10
Buildings, 4
Business, 2
Butler, 10

Call, 9
Called, 6
Calling, 4
Cannot, 8
Capital, 10
Capitation, 4
Captures, 4
Care, 7
CAROLINA, 10
Carroll, 10
Carrying, 4
Case, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16
Cases, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11
Cause, 10, 11
Census, 4, 13
Certain, 11
Certificates, 5, 12
Certify, 5, 12
Cession, 4
Charged, 8
Charles, 10
Chief, 2, 6
Choice, 6, 12, 14
Choose, 1, 2, 6, 12, 14
Choosing, 2, 6, 12
Chosen, 1, 2, 5, 13, 14
Citizen, 1, 2, 6
Citizens, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Civil, 3, 7, 13
Claim, 8, 13
Claiming, 7
Claims, 8, 13
Class, 1, 2
Classes, 1
Clauses, 9
Clear, 5
Clymer, 10
Coin, 4, 5
Collect, 3, 13
Color, 13
Comfort, 8, 13
Commander, 6
Commenced, 11
Commerce, 3, 4
Commission, 7
Commissions, 7
Committed, 4, 8, 11
Common, 1, 3, 11
Compact, 5
Compel, 2
Compelled, 11
Compensation, 3, 6, 7, 11
Composed, 1, 13
Compulsory, 11
Concerned, 8
Concerning, 4
Concur, 3, 6
Concurrence, 2, 3
Concurrent, 14
Condition, 13
Confederation, 5, 9
Confession, 8
Confirmation, 16
Confronted, 11
Congress, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Connecticut, 1
Consent, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
Consequence, 1, 5, 8
Consideration, 7
Considered, 15
Consist, 1, 6, 8, 12
Constitute, 2, 4
Constituting, 15
Constitution, 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15
Constitutional, 12
Constitutionally, 12
Construed, 8, 11, 13
Consuls, 6, 7
Continuance, 3, 7
Continue, 16
Contracted, 9
Contracts, 5
Contrary, 9, 16
Control, 5
Controversies, 7
Controversy, 11
Convene, 7
Convened, 8
Convention, 9
Conventions, 9, 15
Convicted, 2, 8, 12
Conviction, 7
Corpus, 4
Corruption, 8
Cotesworth, 10
Counsel, 11
Counted, 5, 12
Counterfeiting, 4
Counting, 12
Court, 4, 7, 8, 11
Courts, 7
Created, 3
Credit, 3, 5, 8
Crime, 8, 11, 12, 13
Crimes, 7, 8
Criminal, 11
Cruel, 11
Current, 4

Dan, 10
Danger, 5, 11
Daniel, 10
Date, 14, 15
David, 10
Day, 2, 6, 9, 12, 14
Days, 2, 3, 16
Dayton, 10
Death, 6, 12, 14, 16
Debate, 3
Debt, 13
Debts, 3, 5, 9, 13
December, 2
Decide, 16
Declaration, 16
Declare, 4, 8
Declaring, 6, 14
Deem, 9
Defence, 1, 3, 11
Defend, 6
Define, 4
Delaware, 1, 10
Delay, 5
Delegated, 11
Delivered, 8
Delivery, 15
Demand, 8
Denied, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Deny, 11, 12
Department, 4, 16
Departments, 6, 7, 16
Deprive, 12
Deprived, 9, 11
DEPUTY, 9
Derived, 13
Describing, 10
Desire, 2
Determine, 2, 6
Determined, 1, 3
Determines, 16
Devolve, 6, 12
Devolved, 14
Dickinson, 10
Died, 14
Different, 2, 7, 14
Diminished, 6, 7
Direct, 1, 4, 5, 13, 15
Directed, 4, 5, 8, 12
Disability, 6, 12, 13
Disagreement, 7
Disapproved, 3
Discharge, 6, 16
Discharged, 8, 16
Discipline, 4
Disciplining, 4
Discoveries, 4
Disorderly, 2
Disparage, 11
Dispose, 8
Disqualification, 2
Distinct, 11
District, 4, 11, 15
Divided, 1, 2
Dobbs, 10
Dockyards, 4
Dollars, 4, 11
Domestic, 1, 8
Drawn, 5
Due, 8, 11, 12
Duly, 12
During, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15
Duties, 3, 5, 6, 15, 16
Duty, 4, 5

Effect, 3, 8, 14
Effects, 10
Eight, 1, 4, 9
Eighteen, 16
Eighteenth, 15
Eighty-seven, 9
Elected, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 13, 15
Election, 1, 12, 13, 15
Elections, 2
Elector, 5, 13
Electors, 1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15
Eligible, 6, 12
Emancipation, 13
Emit, 5
Emolument, 5, 6
Emoluments, 3
Employed, 4
Empower, 13
End, 7, 14
Ended, 14
Enemies, 8, 13
Enforce, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Engage, 5
Engaged, 13
Engagements, 9
Enjoy, 2, 11
Enter, 3, 5, 6
Entered, 2, 3, 9
Entitled, 1, 5, 8, 15
Enumeration, 1, 4, 11, 13
Equal, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15
Equally, 1, 2
Equity, 7, 11
Erected, 8
Erection, 4
Escaping, 8
Establish, 1, 4, 7
Established, 7
Establishment, 9, 10
Event, 15
Every, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 14
Ex, 4, 5
Exceed, 1, 11
Exceeding, 4, 12
Excepted, 3
Excepting, 2
Exceptions, 7
Excessive, 11
Excises, 3
Excluding, 1, 12
Exclusive, 4
Execute, 4, 6
Executed, 7
Executing, 5
Execution, 4, 6
Executive, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16
Exercise, 2, 4, 10
Exist, 12
Existing, 4
Exists, 16
Expedient, 7
Expel, 2
Expenditures, 5
Expiration, 1, 2
Expire, 7
Exportation, 14
Exported, 4
Exports, 5
Extend, 2, 7, 11
Extraordinary, 7

Fact, 7, 11
Facto, 4, 5
Failed, 14
Failure, 15
Faith, 8
Faithfully, 6, 7
Favor, 11
Felonies, 4
Felony, 3, 8
Few, 10
Fill, 1, 2, 7, 13
Fines, 11
First, 1, 2, 9
Fitzsimons, 10
Five, 1, 6
Fix, 4
Fixed, 14
Fled, 8
Flee, 8
Following, 6, 12, 14
Follows, 5
Forces, 4, 11
Foregoing, 4
Foreign, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11
Forfeiture, 8
Form, 1, 8, 12
Formed, 8
Forth, 4
Forts, 4
Forty-eight, 16
Found, 8
Four, 1, 5, 16
Fourteen, 6
Fourth, 1, 9, 12
Franklin, 10
Free, 1, 10
Freedom, 10
Full, 8
Further, 2

General, 1, 3, 8
George, 9, 10
Georgia, 1, 10
Gilman, 9
Give, 6, 7
Given, 4, 8, 13
Giving, 8
Going, 3
Gold, 5
Good, 7
Gorham, 10
Gouverneur, 10
Governing, 4
Government, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15
Grand, 11
Grant, 4, 5, 6
Granted, 1, 5
Granting, 7
Grants, 7
Greatest, 5, 6, 12
Grievances, 10
Guarantee, 8
Gunning, 10

Habeas, 4
Hall, 1
Hamilton, 10
Hampshire, 1, 9
Having, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13
Heads, 7
Held, 8, 10, 13, 15
Hereby, 14, 15
Herein, 1, 4, 7
Hereof, 14, 15
Hereunto, 9
High, 4, 7
Highest, 6, 12
Himself, 11
Hold, 2, 5, 7, 13
Holding, 2, 3, 5, 15
Honor, 2
Hours, 16
House, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16
Houses, 2, 3, 7, 10, 16
Hugh, 10
Hundred, 4, 9

II, 5
III, 7
Illegal, 13
Immediately, 1, 6, 12, 16
Imminent, 5
Immunities, 8, 12
Impairing, 5
Impartial, 11
Impeachment, 1, 2, 6, 7
Impeachments, 2
Importation, 4, 14, 15
Imports, 5
Imposed, 4, 11
Imposts, 3, 5
Inability, 6, 16
Included, 1
Including, 1, 13
Incomes, 13
Increased, 3, 6
Incurred, 13
Independence, 9
Indian, 3
Indians, 1, 12
Indictment, 2, 11
Ineligible, 12
Infamous, 11
Inferior, 4, 7
Inflicted, 11
Information, 7
Informed, 11
Infringed, 10
Ingersoll, 10
Inhabitant, 1, 2, 5, 11
Inhabitants, 12
Inoperative, 14, 15
Inspection, 5
Insure, 1
Insurrection, 13
Insurrections, 4
Intents, 9
Intoxicating, 14, 15
Invaded, 5
Invasion, 4, 8
Invasions, 4
Inventors, 4
Involuntary, 12
Island, 1
Issue, 1, 10, 13, 16
IV, 8

Jackson, 9
Jacob, 10
James, 10
January, 14
Jared, 10
Jennifer, 10
Jeopardy, 11
JERSEY, 10
John, 9, 10
Jonathan, 10
Journal, 2, 3
Jr, 10
Judge, 2, 7
Judgement, 2
Judges, 6, 7, 9
Judgment, 2
Judicial, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13
Junction, 8
Jurisdiction, 7, 8, 12, 14
Jury, 8, 11
Justice, 1, 2, 8

Keep, 2, 5, 10
Kind, 5
King, 5, 10

Labor, 8
Laid, 4, 5
Land, 4, 9, 11
Lands, 7
Langdon, 9
Large, 3
Law, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16
Laws, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15
Lay, 3, 5, 13
Least, 1, 2, 5, 11, 14, 15
Legislation, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Legislative, 1
Legislature, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13
Legislatures, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15
Letters, 4, 5
Levying, 8
Liable, 2
Liberty, 1, 11, 12
Life, 8, 11, 12
Likewise, 3
Limb, 11
Limitations, 3
Limited, 4
Liquors, 14, 15
List, 5, 6, 12
Lists, 11
Livingston, 10
Longer, 4
Lord, 9
Loss, 13

Made, 1, 5, 7, 9
Madison, 10
Magazines, 4
Maintain, 4
Majority, 2, 5, 6, 12, 16
Make, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13
Male, 12, 13
Manner, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15
Manufacture, 14
March, 12
Maritime, 7
Marque, 4, 5
Maryland, 1, 10
Massachusetts, 1, 10
May, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16
McHenry, 10
Measures, 4, 7
Meet, 5, 11, 15
Meeting, 1, 2, 14
Member, 2, 3, 6, 12, 13
Members, 1, 2, 6, 9, 12
Mentioned, 7, 9
Mifflin, 10
Migration, 4
Miles, 4
Military, 13
Militia, 4, 6, 10, 11
Ministers, 6, 7
Misdemeanors, 7
Mode, 9
Monday, 2
Money, 3, 4, 5
More, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15
Morris, 10
Most, 1, 13

Name, 11
Names, 3, 9
Nathaniel, 10
Nations, 3, 4
Natural, 6
Naturalization, 4
Naturalized, 12
Nature, 11
Naval, 4, 11
Navy, 4, 6
Nays, 2, 3
Nd, 10
Necessary, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12
Needful, 4, 8
Neither, 2, 6, 12, 13, 14
Net, 5
Nevertheless, 2
New, 1, 8, 9, 10
New-Jersey, 1
New-York, 1
Next, 2, 12
Nicholas, 9
Nine, 2, 9
Ninth, 9
Nobility, 5
Nominate, 6, 16
Noon, 14
NORTH, 10
North-Carolina, 1
Nothing, 8
Notwithstanding, 9
Number, 1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15
Numbers, 1, 12
Numerous, 1, 13

Oath, 2, 6, 9, 10, 13
Objections, 3
Obligation, 5, 13
Obligations, 13
Obliged, 5
Obtaining, 11
Occasions, 7
October, 14
Offence, 11
Offenses, 4, 6
Office, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16
Officer, 4, 6, 13
Officers, 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 16
Offices, 4, 6, 7
Older, 16
Once, 2, 14, 15
One, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14
One-fifth, 2
One-third, 2
Open, 5, 8, 12
Operative, 15
Opinion, 6
Ordain, 1, 7
Order, 1, 3
Organizing, 4
Original, 7
Originate, 3
Originated, 3
Others, 11
Ourselves, 1
Overt, 8
Own, 2
Owner, 10

Paid, 3
Papers, 10
Pardons, 6
Part, 4, 9, 14
Participation, 13
Particular, 4, 8
Particularly, 10
Parts, 2, 8
Party, 2, 7, 8, 12
Pass, 3, 5
Passed, 3, 4
Paterson, 10
Pay, 3, 5, 13, 15
Payment, 5, 13
Peace, 3, 5, 10
Peaceably, 10
Penalties, 2
Pennsylvania, 1, 10
Pensions, 13
People, 1, 10, 11, 13
Perfect, 1
Perform, 15
Period, 6
Person, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Persons, 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14
Petition, 10
Pierce, 10
Pinckney, 10
Piracies, 4
Place, 2, 3, 8, 10, 12
Places, 2, 4, 8
Plantations, 1
Poll, 16
Populous, 15
Ports, 4
Possession, 15
Post, 4, 5
Posterity, 1
Power, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Powers, 1, 4, 6, 11, 16
Preamble, 1
Preference, 4
Prejudice, 8
Prescribe, 8
Prescribed, 2, 3, 4, 10
Presence, 5, 12
Present, 2, 5, 6, 9
Presented, 3
Presentment, 11
Preserve, 6
Preserved, 11
Preside, 2
President, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
President-elect, 14
Press, 10
Prevent, 3, 15
Previous, 13
Previously, 11, 13
Primary, 15
Prince, 5
Principal, 6, 16
Prior, 4, 9
Private, 11
Privilege, 4
Privileged, 3
Privileges, 8, 12
Pro, 2, 16
Probable, 10
Proceed, 3
Proceedings, 2, 8
Process, 11, 12
Produce, 5
Profit, 2, 5
Progress, 4
Prohibited, 4, 14, 15
Prohibiting, 10
Promote, 1, 4
Proper, 4, 7
Property, 8, 11, 12
Proportion, 4, 13
Propose, 3, 9
Proposed, 9, 15
Proposing, 9
Prosecuted, 11
Prosecutions, 11
Protect, 6, 8
Protection, 12
Proved, 8
Provide, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 14, 16
Provided, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15
Providence, 1
Provisions, 13
Public, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13
Publish, 2
Published, 5
Punish, 2, 4
Punishment, 2, 4, 8, 11, 12
Purchased, 4
Purpose, 2, 6, 12, 16
Purposes, 9, 14, 15
Pursuance, 9
Put, 11

Qualification, 9
Qualifications, 1, 2, 13
Qualified, 14
Qualify, 14
Quarters, 10
Question, 2, 3
Questioned, 3, 13
Quorum, 2, 6, 12

Race, 13
Raise, 4
Raising, 3
Ratification, 9, 14
Ratified, 9, 14, 15
Ratifying, 9
Rd, 10, 15
Re-examined, 11
Read, 10
Reason, 15
Rebellion, 4, 13
Receipts, 5
Receive, 3, 6, 7
Recess, 2, 7
Recommend, 7
Reconsider, 3
Reconsideration, 3
Reconsidered, 3
Records, 8
Redress, 10
Reduced, 13
Regard, 13
Regular, 5
Regulate, 3, 4
Regulation, 4, 8
Regulations, 2, 7, 8
Relating, 6
Religion, 10
Religious, 9
Remain, 6
Remainder, 15
Removal, 2, 6, 16
Remove, 13
Removed, 6, 7, 8
Repassed, 3
Repealed, 15
Repel, 4
Representation, 1, 6, 12, 13
Representative, 1, 3, 5, 12, 13, 15
Representatives, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 14, 16
Reprieves, 6
Reprisal, 4, 5
Republican, 8
Require, 2, 4, 6
Required, 9, 11, 16
Requisite, 1, 13
Reserving, 4
Reside, 12
Resident, 6
Resignation, 2, 6, 16
Resolution, 3
Respect, 7
Respecting, 8, 10
Respective, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12
Respectively, 3, 4
Resume, 16
Retained, 11
Return, 3
Returned, 3
Returning, 3
Returns, 2
Revenue, 3, 4
Revision, 5
Rhode, 1
Richard, 10
Right, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Rights, 11
Roads, 4
Robert, 10
Rufus, 10
Rule, 4
Rules, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11
Rutledge, 10

Safety, 4
Said, 6, 8
Sale, 14
Same, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16
Science, 4
Sealed, 5, 12
Searched, 10
Searches, 10
Seas, 4
Seat, 4, 5, 12, 15
Seats, 1
Second, 1, 2
Secrecy, 2
Secretary, 9
Sect, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Section, 9
Sections, 14
Secure, 1, 10
Securing, 4
Securities, 4
Security, 10
Seized, 10
Seizures, 10
Selected, 14
Senate, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16
Senator, 1, 2, 3, 5, 13, 15
Senators, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15
Sent, 3
September, 9
Service, 1, 4, 6, 8, 11
Services, 3, 6, 7, 13
Servitude, 12, 13
Session, 2, 3, 7, 16
Seven, 1, 9, 14, 15
Seventeenth, 9
Several, 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15
Sex, 14
Shall, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Ships, 5
Should, 6
Sign, 3, 5, 12
Signed, 3
Silver, 5
Sitting, 2
Six, 1, 13
Sixth, 2
Slave, 13
Slavery, 12
Smaller, 2
Soldier, 10
Sole, 1, 2
Solemnly, 6
Source, 13
SOUTH, 10
South-Carolina, 1
Spaight, 10
Speaker, 1, 16
Speakers, 16
Speech, 3, 10
Speedy, 11
Square, 4
St, 10, 15
Standard, 4
State, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Stated, 6, 7
Statement, 5
States, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Subject, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14
Subjects, 7, 11
Submission, 14, 15
Subscribed, 9
Subsequent, 1
Successors, 14
Sufficient, 9
Suffrage, 9
Suit, 11
Suits, 11
Sundays, 3
Support, 4, 9, 13
Supported, 10
Suppress, 4
Suppressing, 13
Supreme, 4, 6, 7, 9
Suspended, 4
Swear, 6

Take, 3, 6, 7, 14, 16
Taken, 4, 6, 11, 12, 13
Tax, 4, 16
Taxed, 1, 12
Taxes, 1, 3, 13
Temporary, 2, 13
Tempore, 2, 16
Ten, 1, 3, 4
Tender, 5
Term, 1, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15
Terms, 14
Territory, 8, 14, 15
Test, 9
Testimony, 8
Th, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Thereafter, 16
Thereby, 9
Therein, 8, 13, 15
Thereof, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
Thereupon, 16
Thing, 5
Things, 10
Think, 4, 7
Third, 2
Thirty, 1, 2
Thirty-five, 6
Thomas, 10
Thousand, 1, 4, 9
Three, 1, 2, 12
Three-fifths, 1
Three-fourths, 9, 15
Time, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14
Times, 2, 4, 6
Title, 5
Tonnage, 5
Training, 4
Tranquility, 1
Transmit, 5, 12, 16
Transmits, 16
Transportation, 14, 15
Treason, 3, 7, 8
Treasury, 3, 5
Treaties, 6, 7, 9
Treaty, 5
Trial, 2, 7, 8, 11
Tribes, 3
Tribunals, 4
Tried, 2, 11
Troops, 5
Trust, 2, 5, 9
Try, 2
Twelfth, 9, 15
Twenty, 11
Twenty-five, 1
Twenty-one, 13, 16
Twice, 11, 15
Two, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15
Two-thirds, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 16

Unable, 16
Unanimous, 9
Uniform, 3, 4
Union, 1, 4, 7, 8
United, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Unless, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16
Unreasonable, 10
Unusual, 11
Upon, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16
Use, 4, 5, 11, 15
Useful, 4

Vacancies, 1, 2, 7, 13
Vacancy, 16
Vacated, 1
Valid, 9, 13
Validity, 13
Vessels, 5
Vest, 7
Vested, 1, 4, 5, 7
VI, 9
Vice, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Vice-President, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12
VII, 9
Violated, 10
Violation, 15
Violence, 8
Virginia, 1, 9, 10
Void, 13
Vote, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Voted, 5, 11, 12
Votes, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12
Voting, 3

War, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11
Warrants, 10
Washington, 9
Water, 4
Way, 13
Weights, 4
Welfare, 1, 3
Well, 8
Well-regulated, 10
Were, 15
Whatsoever, 4
Wherein, 11, 12, 14
Whereof, 3, 9, 12
Whole, 1, 5, 12, 13, 15
Whom, 5, 8, 11, 14
William, 9, 10
Williamson, 10
Wilson, 10
Witness, 9, 11
Witnesses, 8, 11
Work, 8
Would, 14, 15
Writ, 4
Writing, 6
Writings, 4
Writs, 1, 13
Written, 16

Year, 1, 2, 4, 9, 14
Years, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16
Yeas, 2, 3
YORK, 10