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ing 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.

SECTION 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE XV.

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.

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Acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each State entitled

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Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives

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Capitation tax, apportionment of......

Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten years..
Citizens of the United States, who are, (14th amendment)....

privileges or immunities of, not

to be abridged by any State
(14th amendment)..

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Citizens of United States, not to be abridged on account of color,
race, or previous condition of ser-
vitude, (15th amendment)......

Citizens of each State shall be entitled to the privileges and
immunities of citizens in the several States.....

of the United States, or of the several States, not to be

Claims, no prdjudice to certain......

prejudiced by any construction of the Constitution..

Coasting trade, regulations respecting..

Coins, Congress fix value of foreign..

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Commerce, Congress to regulate..

regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform..

Commissions to be granted by the President..
Common law recognized and established, (7th amendment)..
Congress vested with power.

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may alter the regulations of State legislatures con-
cerning elections of senators and representatives,
except as to place of choosing senators...

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to define and punish piracies, felonies on the high

seas, and offences against the laws of nations... 1 8

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Congress to establish post offices and post roads...

to authorize patents to authors and inventors..

to declare war, grant letters of marque, and make

rules concerning captures.

to raise and support armies..

to provide and maintain a navy.

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to make rules for the government of the army and

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to pass laws necessary to carry the enumerated
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to dispose of and make rules concerning the terri-
tory or other property of the United States...... 4
President may convene and adjourn in certain cases.
may enforce prohibition of slavery by appropriate
legislation, (amendment)..

may, by a two-thirds vote, remove disability of per-
sons who engaged in rebellion, (14th amendment).
shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce
the provisions of Article XIV, (14th amendment).
shall have power to enforce the provisions of Arti-
XV, (15th amendment)..

representation in, how apportioned, (14th amend-
ment).....

Constitution, how amended...

laws and treaties declared to be the supreme law. 6
rendered operative by the ratification of nine
States

Contracts, no law impairing. .

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Conventions for proposing amendments to the Constitution.. 5
Counterfeiting, Congress to provide for punishment of... . . .
Court, Supreme, its original and appellate jurisdiction.... 3
Courts inferior to the Supreme Court may be ordained by Con-
gress
Ditto..

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Crimes, persons accused of, fleeing from justice, may be de-

manded

how to be tried...

Criminal prosecutions, proceedings in cases of..

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Debts against the confederation to be valid..

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