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DIGEST OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Art. | Sec. | Pa. | |
States prohibited from— | |||
Passing bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, or laws impairing contracts, | 1 | 10 | 8 |
Granting titles of nobility, | 1 | 10 | 8 |
Laying imposts, or duties on imports and exports, for their own use, | 1 | 10 | 8 |
Laying duties on tonnage without the consent of Congress, | 1 | 10 | 8 |
Keeping troops or ships of war in time of peace, | 1 | 10 | 8 |
Entering into any contract or agreement with another state, or a foreign power, | 1 | 10 | 8 |
Engaging in war, unless invaded or in imminent danger, | 1 | 10 | 8 |
States, new, may be admitted into the Union, | 4 | 3 | 14 |
May be formed within the jurisdiction of others, or by the junction of two or more, with the consent of Congress and the legislatures concerned, | 4 | 3 | 14 |
States, judges of, bound to consider the treaties, the Constitution, and the laws under it, as supreme, | 6 | 1 | 15 |
States, majority of all, necessary to the choice of President, | 2 | 1 | 9 |
State, each, to be guarantied a republican form of government; protected against invasion; and secured, upon application, against domestic violence, | 4 | 4 | 14 |
Tax, capitation or direct, shall be laid only in proportion to census, | 1 | 9 | 7 |
Tax on exports from a state prohibited, | 1 | 9 | 7 |
Taxes, direct, shall be apportioned according to representation, | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Territory, or property belonging to the United States, Congress may make rules concerning, | 4 | 3 | 14 |
Test, religious, shall not be required, | 1 | 18 | |
Titles. (See Nobility.) | 1 | 9 | 8 |
Title, from foreign state. (See Presents.) | 1 | 9 | 8 |
Treason, defined, | 3 | 3 | 13 |
Two witnesses, or confession, necessary for conviction, | 3 | 3 | 13 |
Punishment of, may be prescribed by Congress with one limitation, | 3 | 3 | 13 |
Treason, or other crime, persons charged with in one state, fleeing into another, shall, on demand, be delivered up, | 4 | 2 | 13 |
Treasury, money drawn from only by appropriation, | 1 | 9 | 8 |
Treaties, the supreme law, | 6 | 1 | 15 |
Vacancies happening during recess of the Senate may be filled temporarily by the President, | 2 | 2 | 11 |
In representation in Congress, how filled, | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Vessels to enter, clear, and pay duties in the states in which they arrive, or from which they depart, | 1 | 9 | 7 |
Vice-President of the United States— | |||
To be President of the Senate, except when exercising the office of President of the United States, | 1 | 3 | 3 |
How elected, | 2 | 1 | 8 |
Qualifications for. 12th amendment, | 20 | ||
Shall, in certain cases, discharge the duties of President, | 2 | 1 | 10 |
May be removed by impeachment, | 2 | 4 | 11 |
Vote of one house requiring concurrence of the other, | 1 | 7 | 5 |
Warrants for searches and seizures, when and how they shall issue. 4th amendment, | 19 | ||
Witness, in criminal cases, no one compelled to be against himself. 5th amendment, | 19 |