That an authenticated copy of the Declaration of Independency, with the names of the Members of Congress subscribing the same, be sent to each of the United States, and that they be desired to have the same put on record. By order of Congress.

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[Went into operation first Wednesday in March, 1789. Owings v. Speed, 5 Wheat. 420.]

ARTICLE I.

SECTION 1. Legislative powers; in whom vested.

SEC. 2 House of Representatives, how and by whom chosen Qualifications of a Representative - Representatives and direct taxes, how apportioned - Enumeration - Vacancies to be filledPower of choosing officers, and of impeachment.

SEC. 3. Senators, how and by whom chosen-How classifiedState Executive, when to make temporary appointments, in case, etc.-Qualifications of a Senator- - President of the Senate, his right to vote - President, pro tem., and other officers of the Senate, how chosen-Power to try impeachments - When President is tried, Chief Justice to preside - Sentence.

SEC. 4. Times, etc., of holding elections, how prescribed - One Session in each year.

SEC. 5. Membership-Quorum --Adjournments-Rules-Power to punish or expel-Journal-Time of adjourments, how limited,

etc.

SEC. 6. Compensation - Privileges - Disqualification in certain

cases.

SEC. 7. House to originate all revenue bills - Veto - Bill may be passed by two-thirds of each house, notwithstanding, etc.— Bill, not returned in ten days, to become a law - Provisions as to orders, concurrent resolutions, etc.

SEC. 8. Powers of Congress.

SEC. 9. Provision as to migration or importation of certain per sons-Habeas Corpus-Bills of attainder, etc.-Taxes, how apportioned - No export duty- No commercial preference - Money, how drawn from treasury, etc.-No titular nobility-Officers not to receive presents, etc.

SEC. 10. States prohibited from the exercise of certain powers. [COPYRIGHTED, 1891.]

ARTICLE II.

SECTION 1. President; his term of office-Electors of President; number and how appointed-Electors to vote on same day-Qualification of President-on whom his duties devolve in case of his removal, death, etc.-President's compensationHis oath of office.

SEC. 2. President to be commander-in-chief - He may require opinions of Cabinet Officers, etc., may pardon - Treaty-making power-Nomination of certain officers-When President may fill

vacancies.

SEC. 3. President shall communicate to Congress - He may convene and adjourn Congress, in case of disagreement, etc.; shall receive ambassadors, execute laws, and commission officers. SEC. 4. All civil offices forfeited for certain crimes.

ARTICLE III.

SECTION 1. Judicial powers - Tenure

SEC. 2. Judicial powers; to what cases it extends-Original jurisdiction of Supreme Court - Appellate Trial by jury, etc.Trial, where.

SEC. 3. Treason defined - Proof of - Punishment of.

ARTICLE IV.

SECTION 1. Each State to give credit to the public acts, etc., of every other State.

SEC. 2. Privileges of citizens of each State - Fugitives from justice to be delivered up-Persons held to service having escaped, to be delivered up.

SEC. 3. Admission of new States-Power of Congress over territory and other property.

SEC. 4. Republican form of government guaranteed - Each State to be protected.

ARTICLE V.

Constitution; how amended-Proviso.

ARTICLE VI.

Certain debts, etc., declared valid - Supremacy of Constitution, treatise, and laws of the United States

Constitution, by whom taken

- Oath to support

No religious test.

ARTICLE VII.

What ratification shall establish Constitution.

AMENDMENTS.

I. Religious establishment prohibited-Freedom of speech, of the press, and right to petition.

II. Right to keep and bear arms.

III. No soldier to be quartered in any house, unless, etc.
IV. Right of search and seizure regulated.

V. Provisions concerning prosecution, trial and punishment - Private property not to be taken for public use, without compensation.

VI. Further provision repecting criminal prosecutions.

VII. Right of trial by jury secured.

VIII. Excessive bail or fines and cruel punishments prohibited.

IX Rule of construction of Constitution.

X. Same subject; rights of States.

XI. Same subject; judicial powers construed.

XII. Manner or choosing President and Vice-President.
XIII. Slavery abolished.

XIV. Citizenship; representation - Public debt.
XV. Right of suffrage-By whom exercised.

THE CONSTITUTION.

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.

See 1 Abb. Nat. Digest, 746: Chisholm v. Oregon, 7 Wall. 71: Texas v. White, id. 700. garded as emanating not from the states as the people. McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 7 Pet. 243; Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1.

Georgia, 2 Dall. 471; Lane v. This constitution is to be regovernments but directly from 316, 403; Barron v. Baltimore,

The sovereignty of the United States and that of a state are independent of each other within their respective spheres of action, although both exist and exercise their powers within the same territorial limits. Ableman v. Booth, 21 How. 506; United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542.

ARTICLE I.

SECTION 1.

1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested In a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives.

Story's Const., chaps. 7 and 8; 2 Dall. 409.