INDEX,

TO THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

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

do. made

Appointments, to be made by 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

Assemble, people may

Attainder, bill of, prohibited to Congress

prohibited to the States

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

Bail, excessive, not required

Bankruptcy laws to be uniform

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

before they become laws, shall be passed by
both Houses, and approved by President;
or, if disapproved, shall be passed by
two-thirds of each House

not returned in ten days, unless an adjourn-
ment intervene, shall be laws

Borrow money, Congress may,

Capitation tax, apportionment of,

Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten

years

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

Claims, no prejudice to certain

Claims of the United States, or of the several
States, not to be prejudiced by any con-
struction of the Constitution

Coasting trade, regulations respecting

Coins, Congress fix value of foreign
Commerce, Congress to regulate

regulations respecting, to be equal and uni-
form

Commissions, to be granted by the President
Common law, recognised and established, 7th
amendment

Congress, vested with power

may alter the regulations of State Legis-
latures concerning 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 elect-
ors of President and Vice President
may invest the appointment of inferior of-
ficers in the President alone, in the courts
of law, or the Heads of Departments
may establish courts inferior to the Su-
preme Court

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

Congress may propose amendments to Constitution, or, call a Convention

to lay and collect duties

to borrow money

to regulate commerce

to establish uniform laws of bankruptcy
and naturalization

to coin money, regulate the value of coin,
and fix a standard of weights and mea-

sures

to punish counterfeiting

to establish post offices and post roads
to authorise patents to authors and invent-

ors

to constitute tribunals inferior to the Su-
preme Court

to define and punish piracies, felonies on
the high seas, and offences against the
laws of nations

to declare war, grant letters of marque, and

make rules concerning captures

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to raise and support Armies

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to provide and maintain a Navy

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to make rules for the government of the
Army and Navy

to call out the militia in certain cases
to organize, arm, and discipline militia
to exercise exclusive legislation over seat of
Government

to pass laws necessary to carry the enume-
rated 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

laws and treaties, declared to be the su-
preme law

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Constitution, rendered operative by the ratifica-
tion of nine States

Contracts, no law impairing

Conventions, for proposing amendments to Con-
stitution

Counterfeiting, Congress to provide for punish-

ment

Court, Supreme, its original and appellate juris-
diction

Courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, may be
ordained by Congress

ditto

ditto

Crimes, persons accused of, fleeing from justice,
may be demanded

how to be tried

Criminal prosecutions, proceedings in cases of
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 enure to the Treasury of the Uni-
ted States

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

altered, see 12th Amendment

to vote the same day throughout the U. S.
no Senator, or Representative, or public of-
ficer shall serve as

Enumeration, every ten years

Executive power vested in a President.-

See President.

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Exports, not to be taxed

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