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+    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 Blessings of Liberty
+to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution
+for the United States of America.
+
+    Article I
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 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 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 chuse 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 chuse their speaker and other Officers; and
+shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
+
+    Section 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 shall 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, and 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 chuse 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 of 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. Judgment 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.
+
+    Section 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 chusing 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 by Law appoint
+a different Day.
+Section 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
+Behaviour, 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 of 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.
+
+    Section 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 encreased 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.
+
+    Section 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of
+Representatives; 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 it 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 Representatives
+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.
+
+    Section 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 Offences 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 State in which the Same
+shall be for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, 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 this Constitution in the Government of the United States,
+or in any Department or Officer thereof.
+
+    Section 9. The Migration or Importion 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
+may 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 form, 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.
+
+    Section 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 it's 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; and all such Laws shall be subject to
+the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
+
+    No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any Duty of
+Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any
+Agreement of 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
+
+    Section I. 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 an equal Number of Votes,
+then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse 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 chuse the
+President. But in chusing 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
+chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.
+
+    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 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 of 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 shall be elected.
+
+    The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a
+Compensation, which shall neither be encreased 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."
+
+    Section 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 Offences 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 Next Session.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 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
+
+    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 Behaviour, and shall, at
+stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not
+be diminished during their continuance in Office.
+
+     Section 2. 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.
+
+    In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and
+those in which a State shall be 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.
+
+    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.
+
+    Section 3. 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. 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 attainted.
+
+    Article IV
+
+    Section 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public
+Acts, 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.
+
+    Section 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges
+and immunities of Citizens in the several States. 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. No Person held to Service or Labour
+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 Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom
+such Service or Labour may be due.
+
+    Section 3. 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.
+
+    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 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 (when
+the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
+
+    Article V
+
+    The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses 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
+
+    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.
+
+    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, any Thing in the
+Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
+
+     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.
+
+    Signed:
+-George Washington-President and deputy from Virginia
+
+    Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
+
+    (The first 10 Amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and are known as
+the "Bill of Rights")
+
+    Amendment 1
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 2
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 3
+
+    No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the
+consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed
+by law.
+
+    Amendment 4
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 5
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 6
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 7
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 8
+
+    Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
+cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
+
+    Amendment 9 The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall
+not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
+Amendment 10 The powers not delegated to the United States by the
+Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
+States respectively, or to the people.
+
+    Amendment 11 (Ratified February 7, 1795) 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.
+
+    Amendment 12 (Ratified July 27, 1804)
+
+    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-Presidents, 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 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 majority, then from the
+persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those
+voted for as President, the House of Representatives 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, then the Vice-President shall act
+as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional
+disability of the President.�The person having the greatest number of
+votes as Vice-President, shall be Vice-President, if such number be a
+majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a
+majority, then from 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, and 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.
+
+    Amendment 13 (Ratified December 6, 1895)
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
+legislation.
+
+    Amendment 14 (Ratified July 9, 1868)
+
+    Section 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 to any person within its
+jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 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 of 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.
+
+    Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate
+legislation, the provisions of this article.
+
+    Amendment 15 (Ratified February 3, 1870)
+
+    Section 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. Section 2. The Congress shall
+have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
+
+    Amendment 16 (Ratified February 3, 1913)
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 17 (Ratified April 8, 1913)
+
+    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 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.
+
+    Amendment 18 (Ratified January 16, 1919)
+
+    Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article that
+manufacture, sale, or transprotation 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.
+
+    Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power
+to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
+
+    Section 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 from
+the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
+
+    Amendment 19 (Ratified August 18, 1920)
+
+    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.
+
+    Amendment 20 (Ratified January 23, 1933)
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and
+such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they
+shall by law appoint a different day.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October
+following the ratification of this article.
+
+    Section 6. 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.
+
+    Amendment 21 (Ratified December 5, 1933)
+
+    Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the
+United States is hereby repealed.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Amendment 22 (Ratified February 27, 1951)
+
+    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. 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 this Article becomes operative from
+holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder
+of such term.
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Amendment 23 (Ratified March 29, 1961)
+
+    Section 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 Representatives 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 in addition to those appointed by the States, but 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.
+
+    Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
+appropriate legislation.
+
+    Amendment 24 (Ratified January 23, 1964)
+
+    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.
+
+    Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
+appropriate legislation.
+
+    Amendment 25 (Ratified February 10, 1967)
+
+    Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or his death
+orresignation, the Vice President shall become President.
+
+    Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President,
+the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take the office
+upon confirmation by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.
+
+    Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of
+the Senate and the 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.
+
+    Section 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 48 hours for that purpose if not in session. If the
+Congress, within 21 days after receipt of the latter written declaration,
+or, if Congress is not in session, within 21 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.
+
+    Amendment 26 (Ratified June 30, 1971)
+
+    Section 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.
+
+    Section 2. The congress shall have power to enforce this article by
+appropriate legislation.