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Description: Section 10No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Lettersof Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing butgold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder,ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant anyTitle of Nobility.No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Dutieson Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executingits inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid byany State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of theUnited States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controlof the Congress.No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keepTroops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compactwith another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actuallyinvaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Description: Section 9The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existingshall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior tothe Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposedon such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless whenin Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to theCensus or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to thePorts of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from,one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriationsmade by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts andExpenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Personholding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent ofthe Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kindwhatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.

Description: Section 8The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts andExcises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and generalWelfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall beuniform throughout the United States;To borrow money on the credit of the United States;To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, andwith the Indian Tribes;To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subjectof Bankruptcies throughout the United States;To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix theStandard of Weights and Measures;To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coinof the United States;To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limitedTimes to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writingsand Discoveries;To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, andOffenses against the Law of Nations;To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerningCaptures on Land and Water;To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall befor a longer Term than two Years;To provide and maintain a Navy;To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and forgoverning such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the UnitedStates, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers,and the Authority of training the Militia according to the disciplineprescribed by Congress;To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District(not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, andthe acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the UnitedStates, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consentof the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection ofForts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; AndTo make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying intoExecution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by thisConstitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department orOfficer thereof.

Description: Section 6The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for theirServices, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the UnitedStates. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of thePeace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session oftheir respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and forany Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any otherPlace.No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected,be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States whichshall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increasedduring such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States,shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.Section 7All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate,shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the UnitedStates; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with hisObjections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter theObjections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If aftersuch Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, itshall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which itshall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, itshall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall bedetermined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for andagainst the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. Ifany Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundaysexcepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law,in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournmentprevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate andHouse of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment)shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Sameshall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shallbe repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, accordingto the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

Description: Section 4The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators andRepresentatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, exceptas to the Place of Choosing Senators.The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shallbe on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint adifferent Day.Section 5Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications ofits own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to doBusiness; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may beauthorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, andunder such Penalties as each House may provide.Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members fordisorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to timepublish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment requireSecrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any questionshall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent ofthe other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than thatin which the two Houses shall be sitting.

Description: Article 1Section 3The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from eachState, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shallhave one Vote.Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election,they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of theSenators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the secondYear, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of thethird Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may bechosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise,during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof maymake temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, whichshall then fill such Vacancies.No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirtyYears, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not,when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, butshall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore,in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office ofPresident of the United States.The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting forthat Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of theUnited States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall beconvicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal fromOffice, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust orProfit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless beliable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according toLaw.

Description: Article I.Section 1All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of theUnited States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.Section 2The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every secondYear by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shallhave the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch ofthe State Legislature.No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age oftwenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and whoshall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall bechosen.Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several Stateswhich may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers,which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons,including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians nottaxed, three fifths of all other Persons.The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meetingof the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of tenYears, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number ofRepresentatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each Stateshall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall bemade, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three,Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticutfive, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Marylandsix, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five and Georgia three.When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the ExecutiveAuthority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; andshall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Description: Section 4The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States,shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason,Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Description: Section 3He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of theUnion, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judgenecessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene bothHouses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, withRespect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as heshall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; heshall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission allthe Officers of the United States.

Description: Section 2The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the UnitedStates, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actualService of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of theprincipal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subjectrelating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power toGrant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except inCases of Impeachment.He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to makeTreaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shallnominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appointAmbassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court,and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not hereinotherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congressmay by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they thinkproper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads ofDepartments.The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen duringthe Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the Endof their next Session.