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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..

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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.....

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of treason shall not work corruption of blood
or forfeiture, except during the life of the
person attainted.........

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Bail, excessive, not required (8th amendment)...

Bankruptcy laws to be uniform...........

Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Re-
presentatives..........

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before they become laws, shall be passed by both houses
and approved by the President; or, if disapproved,
shall be passed by two-thirds of each house.............. 1 7 8 37
not returned in ten days, unless an adjournment inter-

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Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten years.........

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Citizens of each State shall be entitled to the privileges and
immunities of citizens in the several States......

Claims, no prejudice to certain.........

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of the United States, or of the several States, not to be
prejudiced by any construction of the Constitution 4

Coasting trade, regulations respecting..
Coins, Congress fix value of foreign......
Commerce, Congress to regulate.........

regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform...
Commissions to be granted by the President.................
Common law recognized and established (7th amendment).............
Congress vested with power.........

may alter the regulations of State legislatures con-
cerning elections of senators and representatives,
except as to place of choosing senators...

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shall assemble once every year.....

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officers of government cannot be members of.........
may provide for cases of removal, death, &c. of
President and Vice-President.......
may determine the time of choosing electors of Pre-
sident and Vice-President...........
may invest the appointment of inferior officers in
the President alone, in the courts of law, or the
heads of departments.......................

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may establish courts inferior to the Supreme Court.. 3
may declare the punishment of treason.................
may prescribe the manner of proving the acts and
records of each State........

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to assent to the formation of new States............
may propose amendments to Constitution or call a
convention

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to establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and natu-
ralization..........

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to coin money, regulate the value of coin, and fix a
standard of weights and measures..

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to punish counterfeiting........

to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court 1
define and punish piracies, felonies on the high
seas, and offences against the laws of nations..... 1
to establish post offices and post roads......

to authorize patents to authors and inventors........
to declare war, grant letters of marque, and make
rules concerning captures........

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Congress to raise and support armies.....

to provide and maintain a navy....

to make rules for the government of the army and
navy...........

to call out the militia in certain cases........

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to organize, arm, and discipline militia...............
to exercise exclusive legislation over seat of govern-
ment.......

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to pass laws necessary to carry the enumerated powers
into effect..........

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to dispose of and make rules concerning the territory
or other property of the United States............
President may convene and adjourn, in certain cases 2
Constitution, how amended........................................

laws, and treaties declared to be the supreme law
rendered operative by the ratification of nine
States........

Contracts, no law impairing.....

Conventions for proposing amendments to the Constitution... 5
Counterfeiting, Congress to provide for punishment of.......... 1
Court, Supreme, its original and appellate jurisdiction........ 3
Courts inferior to the Supreme Court may be ordained by

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)

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Debts against the confederation to be valid.......................
Duties to be laid by Congress, and to be uniform..........

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on imports and exports imposed by States shall inure
to the treasury of the United States.....

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Elections of senators and representatives shall be prescribed
by the States.........

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qualifications and returns of members of Congress
to be determined by each house........

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Electors of President and Vice-President, how chosen, and

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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.

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