To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years....
To provide and maintain a navy...
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.....
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing
such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, re-
serving to the States, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the au-
☐thority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress 1 8 16
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not ex-
ceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the ac-
ceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States,
and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the
Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts,
magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings; and....
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution
the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the
Government of the U. S., or in any department or office thereof..
Congress. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing
shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year
1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten
dollars for each person...
Congress. No title of nobility shall be granted by the U. S.; and no person holding any office
of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any
present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or
foreign State....
Congress. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on
imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its in-
ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.
spection laws: and the nett produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on
imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; and
all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.....
Congress. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep
troops or ships of war, in time of peace-enter into any agreement or compact with
another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded,
or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.......
Congress. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a
number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to
which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Congress. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on
which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the Uni-
Congress. The Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they
think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of De-
partments...
Congress. The President shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information of the
state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall
judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both
Houses, or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them with respect
to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think
proper..........
Congress. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Congress. In certain cases the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to
law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the Congress
shall make.....
Congress. When crimes are not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place
or places as the Congress may by law have directed..
Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person
Congress. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State, to the public acts, records, and
judicial proceedings of every other State. Aud the Congress may, by general laws,
prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved,
and the effect thereof.
Congress. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State
shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State
be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the
consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.... 43
Congress. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regu-
lations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and
nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the
United States, or of any particular State.
Congress. The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall
propose amendments to this Constitution; or, on the application of the Legislatures
of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing amend-
ments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this
Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States,
or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratifica-
Consent of Congress. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of ton-
nage; keep troops or ships of war in time of peace; enter into any agreement or
compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless ac-
tually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.............
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tion may be proposed by the Congress: Provided, that no amendment which may
be made prior to the year 1808, shall, in any manner, affect the first and fourth
clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no State, without its con-
sent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate....
Consent of the Legislatures. No States shall be formed by the junction of two or more
States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States con-
cerned, as well as of the Congress....
Consent. No State, wiihout its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate
Consent. This Constitution adopted or done in convention by the unanimous consent of the
Consent. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent
of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.....
Constitution ordained and established in order to form a more perfect Union; establish jus-
tice; ensure domestic tranquility; provide for the common defence; promote the
general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty........
Constitution. Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and pro-
per for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested
by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department
Constitution. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen at the time of the adop-
tion of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President of the United
States....
Constitution of the United States. The President shall, before he enter on the execution of
his office, take an oath that he will, to the best of his ability, "preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States".......
Constitution. The Judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under
the Constitution.
Constitution. Nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of
the United States, or of any particular State, respecting the territory or other pro-
perty thereof....
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