2. The person having the greatest number of votes as VicePresident, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President: a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President, shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. INDEX TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. A Arts and sciences, to be promoted........... Acts, records and judicial proceedings of each state entitled to faith and credit in other States......... Amendments to the Constitution, how made.... made..... Appointments to be made by the President.. Apportionment of representatives..... Appropriations by law.......... Appropriation for army not to exceed two years.. Armies, Congress to raise and support......... Arms, right of the people to keep and bear (2d amendment) Assemble, people may (1st amendment)...... Attainder, bill of, prohibited to Congress.. prohibited to the States..... ....... of treason shall not work corruption of blood B Bail, excessive, not required (8th amendment)... Bankruptcy laws to be uniform........... Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Re- before they become laws, shall be passed by both houses Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten years......... 36 1 9 4 39 2 3 34 Citizens of each State shall be entitled to the privileges and Claims, no prejudice to certain......... of the United States, or of the several States, not to be Coasting trade, regulations respecting.. regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform... may alter the regulations of State legislatures con- 1 44 2 44 3 2 44 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 1 35 shall assemble once every year..... 1 2 35 officers of government cannot be members of......... 1 2 36 may establish courts inferior to the Supreme Court.. 3 to assent to the formation of new States............ to establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and natu- 1 to coin money, regulate the value of coin, and fix a to punish counterfeiting........ to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court 1 to authorize patents to authors and inventors........ 1 1 8 5 37 8 6 37 9 37 1 8 10 38 Congress to raise and support armies..... to provide and maintain a navy.... to make rules for the government of the army and to call out the militia in certain cases........ to organize, arm, and discipline militia............... 1 ∞ ∞ ∞ 8 13 38 8 14 38 8 15 38 to pass laws necessary to carry the enumerated powers to dispose of and make rules concerning the territory laws, and treaties declared to be the supreme law Contracts, no law impairing..... Conventions for proposing amendments to the Constitution... 5 Congress... Ditto...... ..ditto............... Crimes, persons accused of, fleeing from justice, may be de- manded...... how to be tried..... Criminal prosecutions, proceedings in cases of (5th amendment) D Debts against the confederation to be valid....................... on imports and exports imposed by States shall inure Elections of senators and representatives shall be prescribed qualifications and returns of members of Congress Electors of President and Vice-President, how chosen, and ral states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution: but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. ARTICLE VII. 1. The ratification of the conventions of nine states, shall be sufficient for the establishment of this constitution between the states so ratifying the same. Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the states present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America, the twelfth. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names. |