State, dated the 25th of February, 1913, to have been ratified by the legislatures of the states of Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, Illinois, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Maryland, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, North Dakota, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Maine, Tennessee, Arkansas, Wisconsin, New York, South Dakota, Arizona, Minnesota, Louisiana, Delaware, and Wyoming, in all thirty-six, said states constituting three-fourths of the whole number of states. The legislatures of New Jersey and New Mexico also passed resolutions ratifying the said proposed amendment. [ARTICLE XVII] 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. The seventeenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several states by the Sixty-Second Congress, on the 15th of May, 1912, in lieu of the original first paragraph of section 3 of article I, and in lieu of so much of paragraph 2 of the same section as related to the filling of vacancies, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated the 31st of May, 1913, to have been ratified by the legislatures of the states of Massachusetts, Arizona, Minnesota, New York, Kansas, Oregon, North Carolina, California, Michigan, Idaho, West Virginia, Nebraska, Iowa, Montana, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Illinois, North Dakota, Nevada, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, New Mexico, New Jersey, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, said states constituting three-fourths of the whole number of states. ANALYTICAL INDEX ΤΟ THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE Art. Sec. Cl. ...... ....... ABRIDGED. The privileges or immunities of citizens of the United .... ....... He shall be tried by an impartial jury of the State and district 6 He shall be informed of the nature of the accusation. [Amend- 6 .... He shall be confronted with the witnesses against him. [Amend- 6 He shall have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his 6 ....... He shall have the assistance of counsel for his defense. [Amend- 6 ACTIONS at common law involving over twenty dollars shall be tried ACTS, records, and judicial proceedings of another State. Full faith ADJOURN from day to day. A smaller number than a quorum of .... ADJOURN for more than three days, nor to any other place than ADMIRALTY and maritime jurisdiction. The judicial power shall ADMITTED by the Congress into this Union, but no new State shall Nor shall any State be formed by the junction of two or more ADOPTION of the Constitution shall be valid. All debts and en- ADVICE and consent of the Senate. The President shall have power To appoint ambassadors or other public ministers and consuls by To appoint all other officers of the United States not herein other- To be taken by the President of the United States. Form of No warrants shall be issued but upon probable cause and on To support the Constitution. Senators and Representatives, mem- ...... No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained thirty .... AID AND COMFORT. Treason against the United States shall con- ..... The judicial power of the United States shall extend to all cases AMENDMENTS to the Constitution. Whenever two-thirds of both To the Constitution. On application of the legislatures of two- .... APPLICATION of the legislatures of two-thirds of the States, Con- APPOINTMENT of officers and authority to train the militia reserv- Of such inferior officers as they may think proper in the Presi- .... In the courts of law or in the heads of departments. Congress ..... Taxes on incomes not to be apportioned among the several States. APPROPRIATE LEGISLATION. Congress shall have power to Congress shall have power to enforce the thirteenth article, pro- Congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of the four- Congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of the fif- ..... APPROVE and sign a bill before it shall become a law. The Presi- He shall return it to the House in which it originated, with his ..... ARMIES, but no appropriation for that use shall be for a longer ARMIES. Congress shall make rules for the government and regula- ..... .... ARREST during their attendance at the session of their respective ....... No bill of.... ATTAINDER or ex post facto law shall be passed. .... ATTAINDER of treason shall not work corruption of blood or for- BAIL. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines nor .... If no person have a majority of the electoral votes for President 1 COMP.ST.'13-e |