The Constitution of The United States

We the people. We the people.Classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated atthe Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expirationof the fourth Year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixthYear, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and ifVacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise during the recess ofthe Legislature of any State the Executive thereof may maketemporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature,which shall then fill such vacancies3: No Person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the ageof thirty Years and been nine years a citizen of the United states, andWho shall not when elected be an inhabitant of that state for which hesha‖ be chosen4: The vice president of the united states shall be president of theSenate but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided5: The senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a president protempore in the absence of the vice president, or when he shall exercisethe office of president of the united states6: The Senate shall have the sole power to try all Impeachments. Whensitting for that Purpose they shall be on oath or Affirmation. When thePresident of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall presideAnd no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirdsof the members present.7: Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than toremoval from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office ofhonor, trust or Profit under the United States: but the party convictedshall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, judgmentand punishment according to lawSection 41: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators andRepresentatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the legislaturethereof, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter suchRegulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and suchMeeting shall be on the first Monday in December 2 unless they shall byLaw appoint a different daySection 51: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns andQualifications of its own Members, and a majority of each shallconstitute a Quorum to do Business but a smaller Number may adjournfrom day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance ofabsent members in such manner and under such penalties as eachHouse may provide2: Each House may determine the rules of its Proceedings punish itsMembers for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence oftwo thirds, expel a member3: Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings and from time totime publish the same excepting such Parts as may in their judgmentrequire secrecy and the Yeas and Nays of the members of either Houseon any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, beentered on the journal4: Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without theConsent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to anyother place than that in which the two Houses shall be sittingSection 61: The Senators and representatives shall receive a Compensation fortheir Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the treasury ofthe United States. b they shall in all Cases, except Treason, felony andBreach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendanceat the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returningfrom the same, and for any speech or debate in either House theyshall not be questioned in any other place.2 No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he waselected, be appointed to any civil Office under the authority of theUnited States which shall have been created, or the emolumentswhereof shall have been encreased during such time, and no personholding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of eitherHouse during his Continuance in OfficeSection 71: All Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House ofRepresentatives, but the Senate may propose or concur withAmendments as on other bills2: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives andthe Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the presidentof the United states, If he approve he shall sign it but if not he shallreturn it with his objections to that house in which it shall haveoriginated, who shall enter the objections at large on their Journal andproceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of thatHouse shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with theobjections, to the other House by which it shall likewise bereconsidered and if approved by two thirds of that House it shallbecome a law but in all such cases the votes of both houses shall bedetermined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting forand against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each Houserespectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the president within tenDays(Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, theSame shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it unless theCongress by their Adjournment prevent its Return in which Case it shallnot be a law3: Every Order, Resolution or vote to which the Concurrence of theSenate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on aquestion of Adjournment) shall be presented to the president of theUnited States, and before the same shall take Effect, shall be approvedby him or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds ofthe Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules andLimitations prescribed in the Case of a billSection 81: The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, DutiesImposts and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the commonDefence and general Welfare of the United States but all DutiesImposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United states;3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the severalStates, and with the indian tribes.4: To establish an uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws onthe subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States5: To coin Money regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, andfix the standard of Weights and measures6: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the Securities andcurrent coin of the united states7: To establish Post Offices and post roads8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing forlimited Times to Authors and inventors the exclusive right to theirrespective Writings and Discoveries9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court10: To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the highSeas, and offences against the Law of Nations11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and makeRules concerning Captures on Land and Water12: To raise and support Armies but no Appropriation of money to thatUse shall be for a longer Term than two Years13: To provide and maintain a Navy:14: To make Rules for the government and regulation of the land andnaval forces15: To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of theUnion, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions16: To provide for organizing arming, and disciplining the militia, andfor governing such Part of them as may be employed in the service ofthe United states, reserving to the states respectively, the Appointmentof the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to thediscipline prescribed by Congress17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over suchDistrict(not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession ofparticular States, and the acceptance of Congress become the Seat ofthe Government of the United States and to exercise like Authorityover all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the Statein which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, MagazinesArsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; -And18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carryinginto Execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by thisConstitution in the Government of the United States, or in anyDepartment or officer thereofSection 91: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the statesnow existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by theCongress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but aTax or duty may be imposed on such Importation not exceeding tendollars for each person2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspendedunless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public safety mayrequire it3: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.4: No Capitation or other direct Tax shall be laid unless in Proportionto the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken75: No Tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.6: No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce orRevenue to the ports of one state over those of another nor shallVessels bound to or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or payDuties in another7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence ofAppropriations made by Law and a regular Statement and Account ofthe receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be publishedfrom time to time8: No Title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: And noPerson holding any Office of Profit or trust under them shall, withoutthe Consent of the Congress accept of any present, Emolument, office,or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign StateSection 101: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation grantLetters of Marque and reprisal; coin Money i emit Bills of Credit, makeany thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of debts; passany Bill of Attainder ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the obligationof Contracts or grant any Title of Nobility.2: No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Impostsor duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutelynecessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net produce of allDuties and Imposts, laid by any state on Imports or Exports, shall befor the Use of the Treasury of the United states; and all such Laws shallbe subject to the revision and controul of the Congress.3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty ofTonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into anyAgreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, orengage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger aswill not admit of delay.Article II(Article 2-ExecutiveSection 11: The executive power shall be vested in a president of the UnitedStates of America. He shall hold his Office during the term of fourYears, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Termbe elected as follows2: Each State shall appoint in such Manner as the Legislature thereofmay direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number ofSenators and representatives to which the State may be entitled in theCongress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an officeof Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed an Elector.3: The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballotfor two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of thesame State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all thePersons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each;, which List theyshall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of theGovernment of the United states, directed to the president of theSenate. The president of the senate shall in the presence of the senateand House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the votesshall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of votesshall be the president, if such Number be a majority of the wholeNumber of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who havesuch Majority, and have an equal Number of votes, then the House ofRepresentatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them forPresident; and if no Person have a Majority then from the five higheston the list the said house shall in like manner chuse the president Butin chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, theRepresentation from each State having one Vote; a quorum for thisPurpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of theStates, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choiceIn every Case, after the Choice of the President, the person having thegreatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President.But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, theSenate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President,&4: The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the electors, andthe day on which they shall give their votes, which day shall be thesame throughout the United States5: No Person except a natural born Citizen or a Citizen of the UnitedStates at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall be eligibleto the Office of President, neither shall any person be eligible to thatOffice who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five Years, andbeen fourteen years a resident within the united states6: In Case of the removal of the president from office, or of his deathResignation, or Inability to discharge the powers and duties of the saidOffice, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President and the Congressmay by law provide for the Case of Removal, death Resignation orInability both of the President and vice president, declaring whatOfficer shall then act as president and such officer shall actaccordingly, until the disability be removed, or a president shall beelected7: The president shall, at stated Times receive for his services, aCompensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished duringthe period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receivewithin that period any other Emolument from the United States, or anyof them8: Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take thefollowing Oath or Affirmation -I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that Iwill faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, andwill to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend theConstitution of the united statesSection 21: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the army and Navy ofthe united states and of the militia of the several states when calledinto the actual Service of the United States, he may require theOpinion in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executiveDepartments upon any Subject relating to the duties of their respectiveOffices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and pardons forOffences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment2: He shall have Power, by and with the advice and Consent of theSenate to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators presentconcur, and he shall nominate and by and with the advice and consentof the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public Ministers andConsuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other officers of theUnited States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise providedfor, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may byLaw vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper,in the president alone in the courts of law or in the heads ofDepartments3: The President shall have power to fill up all Vacancies that mayhappen during the recess of the senate by granting Commissionswhich shall expire at the end of their next SessionSection 3He shall from time to time give to the congress information of the stateof the union and recommend to their consideration such measures ashe shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinaryOccasions, convene both houses, or either of them and in case ofDisagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournmenthe may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper, he shallreceive Ambassadors and other public ministers he shall take care thatthe laws be faithfully executed and shall Commission all the officers ofthe united statesSection 4The president vice president and all civil officers of the united statesshall be removed from office on Impeachment for, and Conviction ofTreason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors