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(2) Constitution, laws and treaties
of the United States supreme.
(3) Officers to take oath to support
constitution—religious tests
forbidden.
ARTICLE VII. —Ratification.
Constitution may be ratified by
concurrence of nine states.
AMENDMENTS
I. Religious freedom.
II. Militia—right to bear arms.
HI. Quartering of soldier3.
IV. Exemption from illegal seizures
and searches.
V. Indictments by grand jurywitness
against oneself—illegal
trials—private property
not to be taken for public use.
VI. Rights of persons accused of
crime.
VII. Jury trials in civil cases.
VHE. Excessive bail and fines and
cruel punishments forbidden.
IX. Unenumerated rights not disparaged.
X. Powers not delegated to the
United States reserved to the
e'a+es.
XI. Judicial power not extended to
suits against a state by a citizen
of another state or of a
foreign state.
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XII. SECTION 1. Election of president
and vice-presidentvotes
of electors—when election
devolves upon house
of representatives-vice-president
to act when no choice.
SEC. 2. Senate to elect vicepresident—when—
quorum.
SEC. 3. Eligibility to vicepresidency.
XIII. Slavery forbidden—congress to
enforce.
XIV. SECTION 1. Citizens who areequal
rights guaranteed too.
SEC. 2. Representatives, how
apportioned among the
states.
SEC. 8. Disloyal persons ineligible
as senators and representatives—congress
may
remove disability.
SEO. 4. Public debt, pensions
and bounties not to be questioned—debts
and claims incurred
in aid of rebellion declared
void.
SEC. 5. Congress to enforce
•> by legislation.
XV. Right to vote not restricted by
race, color, , etc. —Congress
to enforce.
WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for
the United States of America.
ARTICLE I.
SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress
of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives.
Stc. 2. (1)* The house of representatives shall be composed of members
chosen every second year by the people of the several states; and the electors in
each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous
branch of the state legislature.
(2) No person shall be a representative who shall r ot have attained to the
age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States,
•The figures in brackets are inserted for convenience of reference; they are
not in the original.