ARTICLE XI.

The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.

ARTICLE XII.1

1. The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote: a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.

1 See article ii. section 1, clause 3.

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

or forfeiture, except during the life of the
person attainted......

Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives......

1

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
not returned in ten days, unless an adjournment inter-
vene, shall be laws.......

1

1

Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten years.................... 1

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

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

of the United States, or of the several States, not to be
prejudiced by any construction of the Constitution 4 3

1 44

2 44

2 44

1 9 5 39

1

5 37

1 8

3 37

regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform... 1 9

5 39

2

2

3 42

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...............
shall assemble once every year......
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........

2

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.......................................................................................................

..............

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

to lay and collect duties........

218

18

18∞ ∞

288

to borrow money.......

1

to regulate commerce......

1

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

8

3 37

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

1 8 4 37

1

1

1

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........ 1
to declare war, grant letters of marque, and make
rules concerning captures.........

1 8 10 38

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

to call out the militia in certain cases..

1

8 14 38

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

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

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

4

laws, and treaties declared to be the supreme law 6
rendered operative by the ratification of nine
States......

4256

3

2 44

3 1 42

1 45

2 45

7

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)

D

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

further provision respecting.........

cannot be laid by the States.....

on exports prohibited.........

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

E

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

qualifications and returns of members of Congress to be determined by each house........... Electors of President and Vice-President, how chosen, and their duties......