member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States,
or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive
or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution
of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the
enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds
of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States,
authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment
of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing
insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But
neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss
or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations
and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article.
Fifteenth Amendment
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–
Section 2
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Sixteenth Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes
on incomes, from whatever source derived, without
apportionment among the several States, and without
regard to any census or enumeration.
Seventeenth Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two
Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof,
for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The
electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most numerous branch of the State
legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State
in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall
issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That
the legislature of any State may empower the executive
thereof to make temporary appointments until the people
fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the
election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes
valid as part of the Constitution.
Eighteenth Amendment
Section 1
After one year from the ratification of this article the
manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation
thereof from the United States and all territory subject to
the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby
prohibited.
Section 2
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the
Constitution, within seven years from the date of the
submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Nineteenth Amendment
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State
on account of sex.
Section 2
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Twentieth Amendment
Section 1
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at
noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators
and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the
years in which such terms would have ended if this article
had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall
then begin.
Section 2
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year,
and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of
January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Section 3
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the
President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice
President elect shall become President. If a President shall
not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning
of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to
qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President
until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may
by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect
nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring
who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one
who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act
accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have
qualified.
Section 4
The Congress may by law provide for the case of the
death of any of the persons from whom the House of
Representatives may choose a President whenever the right
of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of
the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may
choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall
have devolved upon them.
Section 5
Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October
following the ratification of this article.
Section 6
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within
seven years from the date of its submission.
Twenty-First Amendment
Section 1
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of
the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory,
or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein
of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is
hereby prohibited.
Section 3
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions
in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within
seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the
States by the Congress.
Twenty-Second Amendment
Section 1
No person shall be elected to the office of the President
more than twice, and no person who has held the office of
President, or acted as President, for more than two years of
a term to which some other person was elected President
shall be elected to the office of the President more than
once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding
the office of President when this Article was proposed by
the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be
holding the office of President, or acting as President, during
the term within which this Article becomes operative from
holding the office of President or acting as President during
the remainder of such term.
Section 2
This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within
seven years from the date of its submission to the States by
the Congress.
Twenty-Third Amendment
Section 1
The District constituting the seat of Government of the
United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress
may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal
to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in
Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were
a State, but in no event more than the least populous State;
they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States,
but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election
of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by
a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such
duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any
primary or other election for President or Vice President,
for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or
Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay
any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Section 1
In case of the removal of the President from office or of
his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become
President.
Section 2
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice
President, the President shall nominate a Vice President
who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote
of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro
tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to
discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he
transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such
powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President
as Acting President.
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the
principal officers of the executive departments or of such
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the
President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives their written declaration that the
President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of
his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the
powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President
pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House
of Representatives his written declaration that no inability
exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office
unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal
officers of the executive department or of such other body
as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days
to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House of Representatives their written declaration
that the President is unable to discharge the powers and
duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the
issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose
if not in session. If the Congress within twenty-one days
after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress
is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is
required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both
Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers
and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue
to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the
President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen
years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Twenty-Seventh Amendment
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the
Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an
election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Preamble
ARTICLES OF THE CONSTITUTION
Article I
Legislative Branch
Article II
Executive Branch
Article III
Judicial Branch
Article IV
Relationships Between the States
Article V
Amending the Constitution
Article VI
Prior Debts, National Supremacy Clause, and Oaths of
Office
Article VII
Ratification
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
First Amendment
Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
Second Amendment
Bearing and Keeping Arms
Third Amendment
Quartering Soldiers
Fourth Amendment
Search and Seizure
Fifth Amendment
Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self Incrimination, Due
Process, Takings
Sixth Amendment
Rights of Those Charged in Criminal Prosecutions
Seventh Amendment
Civil Trial Rights
Eighth Amendment
Excessive Bail and Fines, and Cruel and Unusual
Punishment
Ninth Amendment
Unenumerated Rights
Tenth Amendment
Rights Reserved to the States and to the People
Eleventh Amendment
Suits Against States
Twelfth Amendment
Election of President
Thirteenth Amendment
Abolition of Slavery
Fourteenth Amendment
Citizenship, Equal Protection, and Other Post-Civil War
Provisions
Fifteenth Amendment
Right of Citizens to Vote
Sixteenth Amendment
Income Tax
Seventeenth Amendment
Popular Election of Senators
Eighteenth Amendment
Prohibition of Liquor
Nineteenth Amendment
Women’s Suffrage Rights
Twentieth Amendment
Presidential Term and Succession
Twenty-First Amendment
Repeal of Prohibition
Twenty-Second Amendment
Presidential Term Limits
Twenty-Third Amendment
Presidential Electors for D.C.
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Abolition of Poll Taxes
Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Presidential Vacancy and Disability
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Reduction of Voting Age
Twenty-Seventh Amendment
Congressional Compensation
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