DESIGN OF THE ANALYSIS.

1. EVERY substantive matter, or point, contained in each article, section, or clause, embracing every subject, name and definition in the Constitution, has been arranged in alphabetical order. The entire clause in which each word so arranged occurs, being given.

2. All similar words, names, or terms used in the Constitution being thus brought together, saves the time and trouble of reading over that instrument in search of supposed terms or provisions, which, if they cannot be found in this Alphabetical Analysis, will not be found in the Constitution. Under the head of each branch of the Government, as Congress, Senate, House of Representatives, Executive or President, Judiciary, &c., will be found every power, duty, privilege, and restriction belonging to each, and joint or coneurrent power with the other branches. In like manner, all provisions, regarding States, legislatures, persons, people, citizens, powers, offices, laws, elections, army, militia, navy, and every other subject contained in the Constitution, will all respectively, be found under one head.

3. By this arrangement the entire instrument is resolved into its elements, while all clauses containing like terms or provisions are drawn together in close contact, by the strictly alphabetical position of the similar terms or words in each, which proximity brings the whole into one view, to be seen at a glance, and being thus presented to the mind at once, the connection is more easily impressed upon and retained in the memory.

AN ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE AMENDMENTS THERETO.

ABSENCE. In the absence of the Vice President the Senate shall choose a President pro tem.
ABSENT members. A smaller number than a majority of either House of Congress may com-
pel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as
each House may provide...
ACCEPT. No person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, shall, without
the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind
whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign states.....
ACCOUNT. A regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public
money shall be published from time to time.....
ACCUSATION. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused to be informed of the nature and cause
of the accusation...

ACTS, records, and judicial proceedings. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the
public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress
may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and judicial pro-
ceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof..

ACT as President. In case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability, of both the President
and Vice President, the Congress shall, by law, declare what officer shall then act as Pre-
sident, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed, or a Presi-
dent shall be elected..

ADJOURN from day to day. A smaller number than a majority of each House of Congress may
adjourn from day to day.

ADJOURN. Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses may be sitting. ADJOURNMENT. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like man

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ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.

Representatives; but the Senate may propose, or concur with, amendments as on other

bills.
AMENDMENTS to the Constitution. 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
amendments, 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 ratification
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 consent, shall be deprived of its
equal suffrage in the Senate....

APPELLATE jurisdiction. (See Supreme Court.)...

APPOINTED. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected,
be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have
been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such time...
APPOINTED. No Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit

under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

APPOINTMENTS. The Executives of States may make temporary appointments of Senators

in the recess of the legislatures thereof to fill vacancies.

APPOINTMENT of officers of the militia reserved to the States respectively
APPOINTMENT of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States. (See (
Electors.)
APPOINTMENTS. The President shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, judges of the
Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not
herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But 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 departments.

APPOINTMENTS. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen