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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 paymentof 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 payany debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection orrebellion against the United States, or any claim for the lossor emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligationsand claims shall be held illegal and void. 

Section 5 
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, byappropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. 

Fifteenth Amendment 
Section 1 
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not bedenied or abridged by the United States or by any State onaccount of race, color, or previous condition of servitude– 

Section 2 
The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article byappropriate legislation. 

Sixteenth Amendment 
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxeson incomes, from whatever source derived, without 
apportionment among the several States, and withoutregard to any census or enumeration. 

Seventeenth Amendment 
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of twoSenators 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 Statein the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall

issuewritsofelectiontofillsuchvacancies:Provided,That 


the legislature of any State may empower the executive

thereof to make temporary appointments until the peoplefill 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 becomesvalid as part of the Constitution. 

Eighteenth AmendmentSection 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 exportationthereof from the United States and all territory subject tothe jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is herebyprohibited. 

Section 2 
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrentpower 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 theConstitution, within seven years from the date of thesubmission hereof to the States by the Congress. 

Nineteenth Amendment 
Section 1 
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall notbe denied or abridged by the United States or by any Stateon account of sex. 

Section 2 
Congress shall have power to enforce this article byappropriate 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 Senatorsand Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of theyears in which such terms would have ended if this article

hadnotbeenratified;andthetermsoftheirsuccessorsshall 


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 neithera 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 thedeath of any of the persons from whom the House ofRepresentatives may choose a President whenever the rightof choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case 
of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senatemay choose a Vice President whenever the right of choiceshall have devolved upon them. 

Section 5 

Sections1and2shalltakeeffectonthe15thdayofOctoberfollowing 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-FirstAmendment

Section 1 
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution ofthe 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 

ratifiedasanamendmenttotheConstitutionbyconventions

in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, withinseven years from the date of the submission hereof to theStates by the Congress. 

Twenty-SecondAmendment

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 ofa 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

holdingtheofficeofPresident,oractingasPresident,during

the term within which this Article becomes operative from

holdingthe officeofPresidentoractingas Presidentduring

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 bythe Congress. 

Twenty-ThirdAmendment

Section 1 
The District constituting the seat of Government of theUnited States shall appoint in such manner as the Congressmay direct: 

A number ofelectorsof President and Vice President equal

to the whole number of Senators and Representatives inCongress to which the District would be entitled if it werea 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 electionof President and Vice President, to be electors appointed bya State; and they shall meet in the District and perform suchduties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. 

Section 2 
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation. 

Twenty-FourthAmendment

Section 1 
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in anyprimary 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 abridgedby the United States or any State by reason of failure to payany poll tax or other tax. 

Section 2 
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by 
appropriate legislation. 

Twenty-FifthAmendment

Section 1 

In case of the removal of the President from office or of 


his death or resignation, the Vice President shall becomePresident. 

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, suchpowers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice Presidentas 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 thePresident is unable to discharge the powers and duties of

his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume thepowers 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 purposeif 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 isrequiredtoassemble,determinesbytwo-thirdsvoteofboth

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 eighteenyears of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridgedby 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-SeventhAmendment

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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