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To provide for organizing* arming and difti- 1
plining the miStia, atfd for governing such part of
them a* may be employed in the service of the
United States, reserving to the flltts refpeAivefr
the appointment of the officer*, and the authority
Os training the milkia according to the difeipline
prescribed by Congrefa.
To cxercife exclusive legislation in all cases
whatsoever, over such diftriA, (not exceeding ten
miles Square) as may, by cession of particular
Hates, and the acceptance of Congress, become
the feat of the government of the* United States, t
and to exercifc like authority over all places pur
chased by the consent of the legislature of the Hate
in which the fame (hall be, for the ereAion of
forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other
heedful buildings. And
To make all laws which (hall be neceflary and
proper for carrying into execution the foregoing
powers, and all other powers veiled by this Con- b
(litution in the government of the United States,
or in any department or office thereof.
Sea. IX. The migration or importation of Such
persons as any of the dates now existing (hall think
proper to admit, dull not be prohibited by the
Congress prior to the year *BOB, but a tax or duty
may be impodtd on such importation, not exceed
ing ten dollars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus
(hall no{ be suspended, unless when in cases of re
bellion or invasion the public Safety may require it.
No bill of attainder or ex ptft /ado law (hall be
pafied.
No capitation or other direA tax (hall be laid,
tinlefs in proportion to the ccnfus or enumeration
herein before direAed to be taken.
No tax or duty fluH be laid on articles exported
from any date. No preference (hall be gtven by
•ny regulation of commerce or revenue to the I
ports of ons date over tftofe of another; nor (hall
veflels bound to, or from, one date, be obliged to
cuter, clear, or pay duties in another.
No money (hah be drawn from the treafnry, but
in consequence et appropriations made by law;
and a regular dattment and account of the receipts
and expenditures of all public money (ball bepub-
Itihed from time to time..
No title of nobility (half be granted by the
United States. And no person holding any office
of profit or trust under them, (Tull, without the
consent of the Congress, accept of any present,
emolument, office, or title, of any kind what
ever, from any king, prince, or foreign date.
Sett' X. No date dull enter into any treaty,
4 alliance, or confederation ; grant letters of marque
and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit ;
snake any thing but gold and Silver coin a tender
in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder,
ex fljtjudo law, or law impairing the obligation
of comraAs, cr grant any title of nobility.
No date dull, without the consent of the Con
gicls, lay impods or duties on imports or exports,
except what may be absolutely necefiary for exe
cuting its inipeAion laws ; and the net product of
all duties and impods, laid by any date on imports
or exports, dull be for the use of the treasury of
the United States j and all such laws dull be fub
jeA to the revision and controul of the Congress.
Jtfo date dull, without the consent of Congress, j
hiy any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or diips of
war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or
compaA with another date, or with a foreign
power, or engage in war, vnlefs aAually invaded,
or in such imminent danger as will not admit of .
delay.
11.
SeA. I. The executive power (ball be veiled
in a president of the United States of America,
He (hall hold his office during the term of four
years, and, together with the vice-president, cho
| lcn for the fame term, be eleAed as follows :
Each date (hall appoint, in such manner as the
legidature thereof may direA, a number of elec
tors, equal to the whole number of Senators. and
leprefentatives to which the date may be entitled
in the Congress 1 but no Senator or representative,
or person holding an office of trud or profit under
the United States, (hall be appointed an eleAor.
The clcAers (hall meet in their refpeAive dates,
and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one
at lead (hall not be an inhabitant of the fame date
with themfelvss. And they (hall make a lift of
all the persons voted for, and of the number of
votes for each ; which lift they (hall figaand cer
tify, and transmit Sealed tatbe feat of the govern
ment of the United States, direAed to the presi
dent of the Senate. The president of the senate
(Hall, in the 'prefence of the Senate and house of
representatives, open all the certificates, and the
votes dull then be counted. The person having
the grtateft number of votes (hall be the prefidenr
V it such number be a majority of the whole number
appointed; and if there be mere than
one who have fixffi majority *nd have an equal
number of votes, then the house ©f-reprcfenta
tives (hall immediately chufe by ballot one of. them
for prelident; and if no person Have a majority,
then from the five highest on the lift, the fatd
house (hall in like manner chufe the president. But
in chufing the president, the votes ffiall be taken
by states, the reprefentatiom from each state hav
ing one vote ; a quorum for this purpose (hall con
sist of a member or members from two-thirds of
the states, and a majority of all the states ftial be
necessary to a choice.* In every case, after the
choice of the president, the person having the
sreateft number of votes of the eleftors fnall be
she vice-president. But if there (hould remain
two or more who haveequal votes, the fenart lhaU
chufe from them by ballot the vice-president.
The Congress may determine the time of chuf- -
ine the e'leftors, and the day on which they (hall
give their votes; which day fliall be the feme
throughout the United States. _ ,
No perfbn except a natural born- citizen, or a
citizen of the United States, at the time of the
adoption of this Conffitution, (hall be eligible Co
the office of president; neither (hall any person be
eligible to that office* who (hall 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
fice, or of his death, resignation, or inability to ,
difeharge the powers and duties of the said office,
the fame (ball 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 (hall then aft as president, and such officer
shall aft accordingly, until the disability be re
moved, or a president shall be elefted.
The president shall, at Hated times, receive for .
his services, a compensation, which shall neither
be encreafed nor diminished during the period for
which he fliall have been elefted, and he shall not
receive within that period any other emolument
from ihe United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the execution of his office,
he fliall 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 belt of my ability, preferve,proteft
and defend the constitution of the United States.*
Seft. 11. The president fliall be commander in
chief of the army and navy of the United States,
and of the militia of the fcveral states, when cal
led into the aftual service of the United States j he
may require the opinion, in writing, of the prin
cipal officer in each of the executive departments,
upon any fubjeft relating to the duties of their re
fpeftive offices j and he fliall have power to grartt
reprieves and pardons for offences against the
United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He fliall have power, by and with the advice ’
and confcat of the senate, to make treaties, pro
vided two-thirds of the senators present concur;
and he fliall nominate, and by and with the advice
and consent of the senate, fliall appoint ambassa
dors, other public miiiiflers and confute, judges
of the supreme court, and all other officers of the
United States, whose appointments are not herein
othevwife provided for, and which shall beeftab
lifhed 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 fliall have power to fill up all va- ■
cancies that may happen during the recess of the
senate, by granting commiffion6 which shall ex
pire at the end of their next session.
Seft. 111. He ffiall from time to time give to
the Congress information of the state of the union,
an<f recommend to their confederation such mea
sures as he (hall judge necessary and expedient; he
"may, on extraordinory occasions, convene both
houses, or either of them, and in case of disagree
ment between them with refpeft to she time of ad*
journment, he may adjourn them to such time as
he (hall think proper r he fliall receive ambaffa
iors and other public miniilers; he (hall take care
that the laws be faithfully executed, and (hall
commission all the officers of the United States.
Seft. IV. The president, vice-president, and
ali civil officers of the United States (hall be re
moved from office on impeachment for, and fcOn
viftion of, treason, bribery, or other high Crimea
and misdemeanors.
HI.
Seft. I. The judicial power of the United
States ffiall be vefled in one supreme court, and in
such inferior courts as the Congrels may from
time to time ordein end edebUlh. The )ud both
of the supreme end inferior court., flail bold their
offices during good betaviour, end flail u #«ed
tc«i nbt tfccic touts* »■ mmgahuta, |
wbicteftialj not.be aiaainiffied during their continu
ance* in office*
wbicaftiaU not.be aiaamuhed during tncir continu
ance* in office*
Seft. 11. The judicial power ffiall extend to all
cases in law and equity, arising under tbisCon
ftitution, the laws of the United States, and trea
ties made, or which fliall be made, under their
authority; to all cases affefting ambassadors, other
public ministers and confute ; to all cases of ad
miralty and maritime jurifdiftion ; to controver
sies to which the United States (hall be a party;
to controversies between two or more states, be
tween a state and citizens of another state; be
tween citizens of different states; between citi
zens of the fame state claiming lands under grants
of different states, and between a state or the ci
tizens thereof, and foreign ftate6, citizens or sub»
jests. *
In all cases affefting ambafladors, other public
ministers and confute, and those in which a state
(hall be party, the supreme court (hall, have origi- .
nal jurifdiftion. In all the other cases before
mentioned, the supreme court (hall have appellate
jurifdiftion, both as to law and faft, with such
exceptions, and under such tegulations as tha.
Congress (hall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of im
peachment, (hall be by jury; and such trial shall
be held in the state where the said crimes (hall.
h avqr* been committed, but when not committed
within any state, the trial (hall be at such place or
places as the Congress may by law have direfted.
Seft. • HI. Treason the United States,
(hall conlift o ily in fcvying war against them, or
in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and
comfort. No person (hall be convifted of treason
uuiefs on the testimony of two witnesses to the
fame overt aft,, or on confeflion in open court.
The Congress (hall have power to declare the
punithment of treason, bur no attainder of trea
son fliall work corruption of blood , or forfeiture*
except during the life of the person attainted*.
IV-
Seft I. Full faith and: credit (h air be given in
each state to the public afts, records, and judicial
proceedings of every other state, and the Congress
may by general laws, preferibe the manner in
which such afts, records and proceedings (hall be
proved, and the effeft thereof.
Seft. 11. The citizens of each state (hall be en
titled to all privileges and immunities of citizens
in the feveial states.
; A person charged in any state with treason, fe
lony, or other crime, who (hall flee from justice,
and be found in another state, lhaU, on demand of'
the executive authority of the state from which he
fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the ft at Or
having jurifdiftion of the crime.
No person held to service or labo ur in one state,
under the laws thereof, escaping into another,
lhaU, in confqucuce of any law or regulation there
in, b e difeharged from such service or labour,,
hut (hall be delivered up on the claim of the part/
to whom such service or labour may be due.
Seft. 111. New states may be admitted by Con
gress into this union; but no new state (hall be
formed or erefted within the jurifdiftion of any
other state ; nor any state be formed by the junc
tion of two or more states, or parts of states, with
out the consent of the legislatures of the Hates
concerned, as well as of the Congress.
The Congress (haU have power to dispose of and
make all needful rules and regulations refpefting
the territory or other property belonging to the
United States, and nothing in this Constitution
(hall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of
the United States, or of any particular state.
Seft. IV. The United States (hall guarantee
to every state in this union, a republican form of
government, and (hall protest each of them againlt
invasion; and on application of the legiilature, or
of the executive (when the legiilature cannot be
convened) against domestic violence.
V.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of botfe
houses (hall deem it necessary, (hall propofo
amendments to this Constitution, or on the appli
cation of the legislatures of two-thirds of the fc—
veral states, fliall call a convention for proposing.
amendments, which in either case, fliall be valid
to all intents and purposes as part of this Conftiw
tution, when ratified by the legislatures of three
fourths of the fcveral states, or by convention in
three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode*
of ratification may be pcopofed by Congress s
Provided that no amendment which may be made*
prior to the year 1808, (hall in any manner affett
the flrft and fourth clauses in the ninth feftion q£
the firft article » and that no state, without its con
sent, (haU be deprived of its equal fuffrage in th*.
senate.
VI.
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