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Domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, &c. Το insure. [Preamble]

Domestic violence. The United States shall protect each State against invasion and....

Due process of law. No person shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without. [Amendments]

No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without. [Amendments]---Duties and powers of the office of the President, in case of his death, removal, or inability to act, shall devolve on the Vice-President

In case of the disability of the President and Vice-President, Congress shall declare what officer shall act____ Duties, imposts, and excises. Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes.

Shall be uniform throughout the United States__
Duties shall be laid on articles exported from any State. No

tax or..

Duties in another State. Vessels clearing in the ports of one
State shall not be obliged to pay...
On imports and exports, without the consent of Congress,
except where necessary for executing its inspection laws.
No State shall lay any..

Duties on imports or exports. The net produce of all such du-
ties shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United
States.

All laws laying such duties shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress.

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Duty of tonnage without the consent of Congress. No State shall lay any..

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Election of President and Vice-President. Congress may determine the day for the...

Shall be the same throughout the United States. The day of the..

Elections for Senators and Representatives. The legislatures

of the States shall prescribe the time, places, and man-
ner of holding..

But Comgress may, at any time, alter such regulations,
except as to the places of choosing Senators.

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Elections for Senators and Representatives. Returns and qualifications of its own members. Each House shall be judge of the

Electors for members of the House of Representatives. Qualifications of..

Electors for President and Vice-President. 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

Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors
and the day on which they shall give their votes___--
Which day shall be the same throughout the United States
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. [Amendments]

Electors shall name, in their ballots, the persons voted for as
President; and in distinct ballots the person voted for as
Vice-President. [Amendments]...

They shall make distinct lists of the persons voted for as
President and of persons voted for as Vice-President,
which they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to
the seat of government, directed to the President of the
Senate. [Amendments].---..

No person having taken an oath as a legislative, executive, or judicial officer of the United States, or of any State, and afterward engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, shall be an elector But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. [Amendments] ___ Emancipation of any slave shall be held to be illegal and void. [Amendments].

Claims for the loss or.

Emit bills of credit. No State shall

Emolument of any kind from any king, prince, or foreign state, without the consent of Congress. No person holding any office under the United States shall accept any Enemies. Treason shall consist in levying war against the United States, in adhering to, or giving aid and comfort to their

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Engagements contracted before the adoption of this Constitution

shall be valid All debts and

Enumeration of the inhabitants shall be made within three years
after the first meeting of Congress, and within every sub-
sequent term of ten years thereafter....
Ratio of representation not to exceed one for every 30,000
until the first enumeration shall be made
Enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people. The. [Amendments].--.

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Equal protection of the laws. No State shall deny to any per-
son within its jurisdiction the. [Amendments] ---- 14
Equal suffrage in the Senate. No State shall be deprived with-

out its consent of its...

Establishment of this Constitution between the States ratifying
the same. The ratification of nine States shall be suffi-
cient for the..___.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. [Amend-
ments]----

Excises. Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes,
duties, imposts, and..........

Shall be uniform throughout the United States. All duties,
imposts, and

Exclusive legislation, in all cases, over such district as may be-
come the seat of government. Congress shall exercise.
Exclusive legislation over all places purchased for the erection
of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other need-
ful buildings. Congress shall exercise

Executive of a State. The United States shall protect each State against invasion and domestic violence on the application of the legislature or the..--

Executive and judicial officers of the United States and of the several States shall be bound by an oath to support the Constitution.....

Executive departments. On subjects relating to their duties the President may require the written opinions of the principal officers in each of the...

Congress may by law vest the appointment of inferior officers in the heads of..

Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United

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States of America. The......

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Expel a member. Each House, with the concurrence of two-
thirds may.
Expenditures of public money shall be published from time to

time. A regular statement of the receipts and................ Exportations from any State. No tax or duty shall be laid on Exports or imports, except upon certain conditions. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duties on Laid by any State shall be for the use of the Treasury. The net produce of all duties on...

Shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress.
All laws of the States laying duties on..
Ex post facto law shall be passed. No bill of attainder or____
Ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts.
No State shall pass any bill of attainder....
Extraordinary occasions. The President may convene both
Houses-either House of Congress on..

F.

Faith and credit in each State shall be given to the acts, records,
and judical proceedings of another State. Full...__ .
Felony, and breach of the peace. Members of Congress shall
not be privileged from arrest for treason____
Felonies committed on the high seas. Congress shall have
power to define and punish piracies and.
Fines. Excessive fines shall not be imposed. [Amendments].
Foreign coin. Congress shall have power to coin money, fix the
standard of weights and measures, and to regulate the
value of..

Foreign nations, among the States, and with the Indian tribes.

Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with. Foreign power. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, enter into any compact or agreement with any.. Forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. Attainder of treason shall not work..........

Formation of new States. Provisions relating to the..
Form of government. The United States shall guarantee to
every State in this Union a republican............

And shall protect each of them against invasion; and on
application of the legislature or of the executive (when
the legislature can not be convened), against domestic
violence.

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Forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful build-
ings. Congress shall exercise exclusive authority over
all places purchased for the erection of.......
Freedom of speech or the press. Congress shall make no law
abridging the. [Amendments].......
Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall
not be infringed. A well regulated militia being neces-
sary to the security of a. [Amendments]-. --------
Fugitives from crime found in another State shall, on demand,
be delivered up to the authorities of the State from
which they may flee......

Fugitives from service or labor in one State, escaping into
another State, shall be delivered up to the party to whom
such service or labor may be due

G.

General welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, &c. Το

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General welfare. Congress shall have power to provide for the

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promote the. [Preamble]

common defense and

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Georgia shall be entitled to three Representatives in the first
Congress.

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Gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. No State shall make anything but

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Good behavior. The judges of the Supreme and inferior courts
shall hold their offices during.
Government. The United States shall guarantee to every State
in this Union a republican form of

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

Grand jury. No person shall be held to answer for a capital
or otherwise infamous crime, unless on the presentment
of a. [Amendments]

Except in cases arising in the land and naval forces, and in the militia when in actual service. [Amendments]Guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. The United States shall

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

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