and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill, shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.
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 manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law....
Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary, (except on a question of adjournment,) shall be presented to the President of the United States, and, before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill...
CONGRESS shall have power
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to au
thors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court..
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations......
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water...
ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.
To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.....
To make rules for the government a d regulation of the land and naval forces To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insur- rections, and repel invasions..
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, reserving to the States, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress..
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Con- gress, 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 Govern- ment of the United States, 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
CONGRESS. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; 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 inspection 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 Coxe 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 im- minent 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 United States...
CONGRESS. The Congress may, by law, provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected....
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 Depart-
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 make law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the Congress shall
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 attainted.
ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS-Continued.
CONGRESS. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State, to the public acts, records, and COMO judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may, by general laws, pre- scribe 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 Coxerformed 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
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 amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitu- tion, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by con- ventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be pro- posed 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 suf- frage in the Senate..
CONGRESS. The Senators and Representatives in Congress shall be bound by an oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution.. CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. CONGRESS. The certificates of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States shall be opened by the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the votes shall then be counted. CONNECTICUT entitled to 5 Representatives in the first Congress
CONSENT of Congress. 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 State........
CONSENT of either House. 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 COZ which the two Houses shall be sitting.. CONSENT of Congress. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts its inspection laws..... or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing
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 actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
CONSENT of the Legislatures. No State shall 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....
CONSENT. No State, without 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 States present
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 justice; ensure domestic tranquillity; provide for the common defence; promote the gene- ral welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty.
CONSTITUTION. Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by thereof. this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or office CONSTITUTION. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen at the time of the States... adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President of the United
CONSTITUTION of the United States. The President shall, before he enter on the execution
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