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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive
fines nor cruel and unusual punishments imposed.
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Bankruptcies. Congress shall have power to pass uniform
laws on the subject of.

Bill of Attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. No....
Bill of Attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the
obligation of contracts. No State shall pass any.
Bills of credit. No State shall emit.... .

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

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Bills which have passed the Senate and House of Representa-
tives shall, before they become laws, be presented to
the President for approval or veto..
Not returned by the President within ten days (Sundays
excepted), shall, unless Congress adjourn, become laws. 1
Borrow money on the credit of the United States. Congress
shall have power to.

Bounties and pensions what shall not be questioned. [Amend-
ments]...

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Bribery, treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors, impeachment for.....

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Capitation or other direct tax shall be laid unless in propor-
tion to the census or enumeration. No....
Captures on land and water. Congress shall make rules con-
cerning..

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Casting vote. The Vice-President shall have no vote unless the Senate be equally divided..........

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Census or enumeration of the inhabitants how and when to be made.....

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Choosing electors. Mode of.

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

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State in which they reside.
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No State shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States. [Amendments]. .

Civil officers of the United States, removal of...

Coin a tender in payment of debts. No State shall make anything but gold and silver..

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Coin money and regulate the value thereof and of foreign
coin. Congress shall have power to..

Coin of the United States. Congress shall provide for pun-
ishing the counterfeiting the securities and current...
Color, or previous condition of servitude. No denial of
suffrage on account of. [Amendments]...

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Commerce with foreign nations, among the States, and with
Indian tribes. Congress shall have power to regulate. 1 8
Commissions to expire at the end of the next session. The
President may fill vacancies that happen in the recess
of the Senate by granting..

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Common law, where the amount involved exceeds twenty dol-
lars, shall be tried by jury. Suits at. [Amendments.] 7
Compensation. Private property shall not be taken for public
use without just. [Amendments].....

Confederation. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance,

or.......

Congress of the United States. All legislative powers shall be

vested in a... . . . .

Shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives..
Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, which
shall be on the first Monday of December, unless they
by law appoint a different day.....

May at any time alter regulations for elections of Senators
and Representatives, except as to the places of choosing
Senators

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Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns
and qualifications of its own members..

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A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to
do business......

A smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may
be authorized to compel the attendance of absent mem-
bers.

Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings,
punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with
the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member..
Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings..
Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall,
without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than
three days...

Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensa-
tion to be ascertained by law

They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach
of the peace, be privileged from arrest during attend-
ance at their respective Houses, and in going to and
returning from the same

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Congress. No Senator or Representative shall, during his
term, be appointed to any civil office which shall have
been created, or of which the emoluments shall have
been increased, during such term....

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No person holding any office under the United States
shall, while in office, be a member of either House of
Congress

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All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House
of Representatives....
Proceedings in cases of bills returned by the President
with his objections. . . . . .

Congress. Specific enumeration of the powers of.

No person holding any office under the United States
shall accept of any present, emolument, office, or title
of any kind from any foreign State, without the con-
sent of.....

May determine the time of choosing the electors for
President and Vice-President and the day on which
they shall give their votes.....

The President may, on extraordinary occasions, convene
either House of.....

The manner in which the acts, records and judicial pro-
ceedings of the States shall be proved, shall be pre-
scribed by..

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New States may be admitted by Congress into this Union. 4
Shall have power to make all needful rules and regula-
tions respecting the territory or other property belong-
ing to the United States.....
Amendments to the Constitution shall be proposed when-
ever it shall be deemed necessary by two-thirds of both
houses of... . . . .

Persons engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the
United States disqualified for Senators or Representa-
tives in. [Amendments].

But such disqualifications may be removed by a vote of
two-thirds of both houses of. [Amendments]..
Shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation,
the thirteenth amendment. [Amendments]...
Shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation,
the fourteenth amendment. [Amendments]. . . . . . . . . .
Shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation,
the fifteenth amendment. [Amendments]........

Consent of Congress. No person holding any office of profit
or trust under the United States shall accept of any
present, emolument, office or title of any kind what-
ever, from any king, prince or foreign potentate, with-
out the..

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Consent of Congress. No State shall lay any imposts or duties
on imports, except what may be absolutely necessary
for executing its inspection laws, without the.......
No State shall lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or
ships of war in time of peace, without the.
No State shall enter into any agreement or compact with
another State, or with a foreign power, without the...
No State shall engage in war unless actually invaded, or
in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay,
without the..

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Consent of the other. Neither House, during the session of
Congress, shall adjourn for more than three days, nor
to any other place than that in which they shall be
sitting, without the......
Constitution. Amendments to, how proposed and ratified...
Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof, and all
treaties made, or which shall be made, by the United
States, shall be the supreme law of the land. The.... 6
The judges in every State, anything in the constitution
or laws of a State to the contrary notwithstanding,
shall be bound thereby.

Constitution. All officers, legislative, executive and judicial,
of the United States, and of the several States, shall
be bound by an oath to support the..

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But no religious test shall ever be required as a qualifi-
cation for any office or public trust.....
Constitution, between the States so ratifying the same. The
ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be
sufficient for the establishment of the

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Contracts. No State shall pass any ex post facto law, or law
impairing the obligation of..

Copyrights to authors for limited times. Congress shall have

power to provide for...

Corruption of blood. Attainder of treason shall not work....
Counsel for his defense. In all criminal prosecutions the
accused shall have the assistance of. [Amendments]. 6
Counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United

States. Congress shall provide for the punishment of.
Courts. Congress shall have power to constitute tribunals
inferior to the supreme court.

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Courts of law. Congress may by law vest the appointment of
such inferior officers as they think proper in the Presi-
dent alone, in the heads of Departments, or in the.... 2 2 35
Courts as Congress may establish. The judicial power of the
United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court
and such inferior......

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Credit of the United States. Congress shall have power to
borrow money on the.......

Credit shall be given in every other State to the public acts,
records and judicial proceedings of each State. Full
faith and....

Crime, unless on a presentment of a grand jury. No person
shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise
infamous. [Amendments]...

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Except in cases in the military and naval forces, or in the
militia, when in actual service. [Amendments]....... 5
Crimes shall be tried by a jury in the State within which
they may be committed...

When not committed in a State, they shall be tried at the
places which Congress may by law have provided
Criminal prosecutions, how conducted. [Amendments].
Criminate himself. No person as a witness shall be compelled
to. [Amendments]
Cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Excessive bail shall
not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor.
[Amendments].

D.

Debt of the United States, including debts for pensions and
bounties incurred in suppressing insurrection or rebel-
lion, shall not be questioned. The validity of the pub-
lic. [Amendments]..

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Debts and engagements contracted before the adoption of this
Constitution shall be as valid against the United States
under it as under the Confederation.....
Defense. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have
the assistance of counsel for his. [Amendments]... 6
Delaware entitled to one Representative in the First Congress. 1
Departments. Congress may by law vest the appointment of
inferior officers in the heads of.....
Direct tax shall be laid unless in proportion to the census or
enumeration. No capitation or other..

Direct taxes and Representatives, how apportioned among the
several States. [Repealed by the second section of the
fourteenth amendment]........

Disagreement between the two Houses as to the time of
adjournment, the President may adjourn them to such
time as he may think proper. In case of..............
Disqualifications of Senator or Representative to hold office

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District of Columbia. Congress shall exercise exclusive legis-
lation in all cases over the.....

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