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XI
Proposed 1794; Ratified 1798
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The
Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to
extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted
against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or
by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
- Article
XII
Proposed 1803;
Ratified 1804
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The
Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot
for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not
be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall
name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in
distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they
shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President,
and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number
of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and
transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United
States, directed to the President of the Senate;--The President of
the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of
Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall
then be counted;--The person having the greatest number of votes
for President, shall be the President, if such number be a
majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no
person have such majority, then from the persons having the
highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for
as President, the House of Representatives shall choose
immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the
President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation
from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall
consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and
a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And
if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President
whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the
fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall
act as President, as in the case of the death or other
constitutional disability of the President.--The person having the
greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the
Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number
of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from
the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the
Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of
two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the
whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person
constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be
eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
- Contested
Article
Proposed 1810;
Probably Ratified 1819
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If
any Citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or
retain any Title of Nobility or Honour, or shall, without the
Consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, Pension,
Office or Emolument of any kind whatever, from any Emperor, King,
Prince or foreign Power, such Person shall cease to be a Citizen
of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any Office
of Trust or Profit under them, or either of them.
- Unratified
Article
Proposed 1861;
Signed by President Lincoln; Unratified
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Article
Thirteen. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which
will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or
interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions
thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the
laws of said State.
- Article
XIII
Proposed 1865;
Ratified 1865
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Section.
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction.
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Section.
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
- Article
XIV
Proposed 1866;
Ratified Under Duress 1868
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Section.
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws.
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Section.
2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several
States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But
when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors
for President and Vice President of the United States,
Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers
of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied
to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one
years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way
abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime,
the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to
the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such
State.
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Section.
3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress,
or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office,
civil or military, under the United States, or under any State,
who, having previously taken an oath, as a 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.
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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.
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Section.
5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article.
- Article
XV
Proposed 1869;
Ratified 1870
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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.
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Section.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
- Article
XVI
Proposed 1909;
Questionably Ratified 1913
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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.
- Article
XVII
Proposed 1912;
Ratified 1913; (Possibly Unconstitutional; See Article V, Clause 3
of the Constitution)
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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.
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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.
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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.
- Article
XVIII
Proposed 1917;
Ratified 1919; Repealed 1933 (See Amendment XXI, Section 1)
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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.
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Section.
2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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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.
- Article
XIX
Proposed 1919;
Ratified 1920
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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.
Congress
shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
- Unratified
Article
Proposed 1926;
Unratified
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Article--
Section.
1. The Congress
shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of
persons under eighteen years of age.
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Section.
2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this
article except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended
to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by
the Congress.
- Article
XX
Proposed 1932;
Ratified 1933
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Section.
5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of
October following the ratification of this article.
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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.
- Article
XXI
Proposed 1933;
Ratified 1933
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Section.
1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of
the United States is hereby repealed.
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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.
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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.
- Article
XXII
Proposed 1947;
Ratified 1951
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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.
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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.
- Article
XXIII
Proposed 1960;
Ratified 1961
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Section.
1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the
United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may
direct:
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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.
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Section.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
- Article
XXIV
Proposed 1962;
Ratified 1964
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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.
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Section.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
- Article
XXV
Proposed 1965;
Ratified 1967
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Section.
1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of
his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become
President.
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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.
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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.
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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.
- Article
XXVI
Proposed 1971;
Ratified 1971
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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.
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Section.
2.The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
- Inoperative
Article
Proposed 1972;
Expired Unratified 1982
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Article--
Section.
1. Equality of
rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of sex.
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Section.
2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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Section.
3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date
of ratification.
- Inoperative
Article
Proposed 1978;
Expired Unratified 1985
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Article--
Section.
1. For purposes
of representation in the Congress, election of the President and
Vice President, and article V of this Constitution, the District
constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be
treated as though it were a State.
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Section.
2. The exercise of the rights and powers conferred under this
article shall be by the people of the District constituting the
seat of government, and as shall be provided by the Congress.
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Section.
3. The twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution
of the United States is hereby repealed.
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Section.
4. 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.
- Article
XXVII
Proposed 1789;
Ratified 1992; Second of twelve Articles comprising the Bill of
Rights
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No
law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and
Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of
Representatives shall have intervened.