The Constitution of the United States


           as provided by the Special Assistant to the
         Counsel to President William Jefferson Clinton
                      on September 26, 1996


WE THE  PEOPLE OF  THE UNITED  STATES, in  order to  form a  more
perfect Union,  establish Justice,  insure domestic  Tranquility,
provide for  the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and
secure the  Blessings of  Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain  and establish  this Constitution for the United States
of America.


ARTICLE I.

Section 1.  All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested
in a  Congress of  the United  States, which  shall consist  of a
Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2.   The  House of  Representatives shall  be composed of
Members chosen  every second  Year by  the People  of the several
States,  and   the  Electors   in  each   State  shall  have  the
Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch
of the State Legislature.

     No Person  shall be  a Representative  who  shall  not  have
attained to  the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a
Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be
an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

     Representatives and  direct Taxes shall be apportioned among
the several  States which  may be  included  within  this  Union,
according to  their respective Numbers, which shall be determined
by adding  to the  whole Number  of free Persons, including those
bound to  Service for  a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not
taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.  The actual Enumeration
shall be  made within  three Years after the first Meeting of the
Congress of  the United  States, and within every subsequent Term
of ten  Years, in  such Manner  as they shall by Law direct.  The
Number of  Representatives shall  not exceed one for every thirty
Thousand, but  each State shall have at Least one Representative;
and until  such enumeration  shall be  made,  the  State  of  New
Hampshire shall  be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight,
Rhode-Island and  Providence Plantations  one, Connecticut  five,
New York  six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one,
Maryland six,  Virginia ten,  North Carolina five, South Carolina
five, and Georgia three.

     When vacancies  happen in the Representation from any State,
the Executive  Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to
fill such Vacancies.


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     The House  of Representatives  shall chuse their Speaker and
other Officers;  and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Section 3.   The Senate of the United States shall be composed of
two Senators  from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof,
for six Years;  and each Senator shall have one Vote.

     Immediately after  they shall be assembled in Consequence of
the first  Election, they  shall be  divided as equally as may be
into three Classes.  The Seats of the Senators of the first Class
shall be  vacated at  the Expiration  of the  second Year, of the
second Class  at the  Expiration of  the fourth  Year, and of the
third Class  at the  Expiration of  the sixth  Year, so  that one
third may  be chosen  every second Year;  and if Vacancies happen
by  Resignation,   or  otherwise,   during  the   Recess  of  the
Legislature  of   any  State,  the  Executive  thereof  may  make
temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature,
which shall then fill such Vacancies.

     No Person  shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to
the Age  of thirty  Years, and  been nine  Years a Citizen of the
United States,  and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant
of that State for which he shall be chosen.

     The Vice  President of  the United States shall be President
of the  Senate, but  shall have  no Vote,  unless they be equally
divided.

     The Senate  shall chuse  their other  Officers, and  also  a
President pro  tempore, in  the Absence of the Vice President, or
when he  shall exercise  the Office  of President  of the  United
States.

     The  Senate   shall  have   the  sole   Power  to   try  all
Impeachments.   When sitting  for that  Purpose, they shall be on
Oath or  Affirmation.  When the President of the United States is
tried, the  Chief Justice  shall preside:  And no Person shall be
convicted without  the Concurrence  of two  thirds of the Members
present.

     Judgment in  Cases of  Impeachment shall  not extend further
than to  removal from  Office, and  disqualification to  hold and
enjoy any  Office of  honor, Trust  or Profit  under  the  United
States:  but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and
subject to  Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according
to Law.

Section 4.  The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for
Senators and  Representatives, shall  be prescribed in each State
by the  Legislature thereof,  but the Congress may at any time by
Law make  or alter  such Regulations,  except as to the Places of
chusing Senators.

     The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and
such Meeting  shall be  on the  first Monday  in December, unless
they shall by Law appoint a different Day.


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Section 5.   Each  House shall  be the  Judge of  the  Elections,
Returns and  Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of
each shall  constitute a  Quorum to  do Business;   but a smaller
Number may  adjourn from  day to  day, and  may be  authorized to
compel the  Attendance of  absent Members,  in such  Manner,  and
under such Penalties as each House may provide.

     Each House may determine the Rule of its Proceedings, punish
its Members  for disorderly  Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence
of two thirds, expel a Member.

     Each House shall keep a journal of its Proceedings, and from
time to  time publish  the same,  excepting such  Parts as may in
their Judgment  require Secrecy;   and  the Yeas  and Nays of the
Members of  either House  on any question shall, at the Desire of
one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.

     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
shall be sitting.

Section 6.   The  Senators and  Representatives shall  receive  a
Compensation for  their Services,  to be  ascertained by Law, and
paid out of the Treasury of the United States.  They shall in all
cases, except  Treason,  Felony  and  Breach  of  the  Peace,  be
privileged from  Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of
their respective  Houses, and  in going to and returning from the
same;   and for  any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall
not be questioned in any other Place.

     No Senator or Representative shall, during 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 whereof  shall have  been encreased  during such time;
and no  Person holding  any Office under the United States, shall
be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

Section 7.   All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the
House of  Representatives;   but the Senate may propose or concur
with Amendments as on other Bills.

     Every  Bill   which  shall   have  passed   the   House   of
Representatives and  the Senate shall, before it become a Law, be
presented to  the President  of the United States;  if he approve
he shall  sign it,  but if  not he  shall  return  it,  with  his
Objections to  that House  in which it shall have originated, who
shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed
to reconsider  it.   If after  such Reconsideration two thirds of
the House  shall agree  to pass  the  Bill,  it  shall  be  sent,
together with  the Objections,  to the  other House,  by which it
shall likewise  be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of
that House,  it shall  become a  Law.   But in all such Cases the
Votes of  both Houses  shall be  determined by yeas and Nays, 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.


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     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.

Section 8.   The  Congress shall  have Power  To lay  and collect
Taxes, Duties,  Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide
for the  common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;
but all  Duties, Imposts  and Excises shall be uniform throughout
the United States.

     To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

     To regulate  Commerce with  foreign Nations,  and among  the
several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

     To establish  an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform
Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

     To coin  Money, regulate  the Value  thereof, and of foreign
Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

     To  provide   for  the   Punishment  of  counterfeiting  the
Securities and current Coin of the United States;

     To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

     To promote  the Progress  of Science  and  useful  Arts,  by
securing for limited Times to Authors 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;

     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 Insurrections and repel Invasions;


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     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  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
United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Section 9.   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 one  thousand
eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such
Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

     The Privilege  of the  Writ of  Habeas Corpus  shall not  be
suspended, unless  when in  Cases of  Rebellion or  Invasion  the
public Safety may require it.

     No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

     No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in
Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to
be taken.

     No Tax  or Duty  shall be laid on Articles exported from any
State.

     No Preference  shall be  given by any Regulation of Commerce
or Revenue  to the Ports of one State over those of another;  nor
shall Vessels  bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter,
clear, or pay Duties in another.

     No  Money   shall  be   drawn  from  the  Treasury,  but  in
Consequence  of   Appropriations  made  by  Law,  and  a  regular
Statement and  Account of  the Receipts  and Expenditures  of all
public Money shall be published from time to time.

     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  the  Congress,  accept  of  any
present, Emolument,  Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from
any King, Prince, or foreign State.


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Section 10.   No  State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or
Confederation;   grant Letters  of Marque  and  Reprisal;    coin
Money;  emit Bills of Credit;  make any Thing but gold and silver
Coin a  Tender in  Payment of Debts;  pass any Bill of Attainder,
ex post facto Law,  or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts,
or grant any Title of Nobility.

     No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any
Imposts or  Duties on  Imports or  Exports, except  what  may  be
absolutely necessary  for executing  it's [sic]  inspection Laws:
and the  net 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 Controul of the Congress.

     No State  shall, without  the Consent  of Congress,  lay any
Duty on  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.


ARTICLE II.


Section 1.  The executive Power shall be vested in a President of
the United  States of  America.   He shall hold his Office during
the term  of four  Years, and,  together with the Vice President,
chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows [sic]

     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:   but no Senator or Representative, or
Person holding  an Office  of Trust  or Profit  under the  United
States, shall be appointed an Elector.

     The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote
by Ballot  for two  Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an
Inhabitant of  the same  State with  themselves.   And they shall
make a  List of  all the  Persons voted for, and of the Number of
Votes for  each;   which List  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
shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole
Number of  Electors appointed;  and if there be more than one who
have such  Majority, and  have an equal Number of Votes, then the
House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of
them for  President;  and if no Person have a Majority, then from
the five  highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner
chuse the  President.   But in  chusing 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
all the  States shall  be necessary  to a Choice.  In every Case,
after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest
Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President.  But
if there  should remain  two or  more who  have equal  Votes, the
Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.


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     The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors,
and the  Day on  which they  shall give  their Votes;   which Day
shall be the same throughout the United States.

     No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the
United States,  at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,
shall be  eligible to  the Office of President, neither shall any
Person be  eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to
the Age  of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident
within the United States.

     In Case  of the  Removal of the President from Office, or of
his Death,  Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and
Duties of  the said  Office, the  Same shall  devolve on the Vice
President, and  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.

     The President  shall,  at  stated  Times,  receive  for  his
Services, a  Compensation, which  shall neither  be encreased  or
diminished during  the  Period  for  which  he  shall  have  been
elected, and  he shall  not receive  within that Period any other
Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

     Before he  enters on  the Execution  of his Office, he shall
take the  following Oath or Affirmation:  -- "I do solemnly swear
(or  affirm)  that  I  will  faithfully  execute  the  Office  of
President of  the United  States, and  will to  the  best  of  my
Ability, preserve,  protect and  defend the  Constitution of  the
United States."

Section 2.  The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army
and Navy  of the United States, and of the Militia of the several
States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;
he may  require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer
in each  of the  executive Departments, upon any Subject relating
to the  Duties of  their respective  Offices, and  he shall  have
Power to  grant Reprieves  and Pardons  for Offences  against the
United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

     He shall  have Power,  by and with the Advice and Consent of
the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators
present concur;   and  he 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.


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     The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that
may  happen   during  the  Recess  of  the  Senate,  by  granting
Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Section 3.   He  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;    he  shall  receive
Ambassadors and  other public Ministers;  he shall take Care that
the Laws  be faithfully  executed, and  shall Commission  all the
Officers of the United States.

Section 4.   The President, Vice President and all civil Officers
of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment
for, and  Conviction of,  Treason, Bribery,  or other high Crimes
and Misdemeanors.


ARTICLE III

Section 1.   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.  The Judges,
both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices
during good  Behaviour, and  shall, at  stated Times, receive for
their Services,  a Compensation,  which shall  not be  diminished
during their Continuance in Office.

Section 2.   The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law
and Equity,  arising under  this Constitution,  the Laws  of  the
United States,  and Treaties  made, or which shall be made, under
their Authority;   --  to all  Cases affecting Ambassadors, other
public Ministers  and Consuls;   -- to all Cases of admiralty and
maritime jurisdiction;   --  to Controversies to which the United
States shall be a Party;  -- to Controversies between two or more
States;   -- between  a State  and Citizens of another State;  --
between Citizens  of different  States;   between Citizens of the
same State  claiming Lands  under Grants of different States, and
between a  State, or  the Citizens  thereof, and  foreign States,
Citizens or Subjects.

     In all  cases affecting  Ambassadors, other public Ministers
and Consuls,  and those  in which  a State  shall be  Party,  the
supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.  In all the other
Cases before  mentioned, 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.

     The Trial  of all  Crimes, except  in Cases  of Impeachment,
shall be  by Jury;   and  such Trial  shall be  held in the State
where the  said Crimes  shall have  been committed;  but when not
committed within  any State,  the Trial shall be at such Place or
Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.


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Section 3.  Treason against the United States, shall consist only
in levying  War against  them, or  in adhering  to their Enemies,
giving them  Aid and  Comfort.   No Person  shall be convicted of
Treason unless  on the  Testimony of  two Witnesses  to the  same
overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

     The 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.


ARTICLE IV.

Section 1.  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 Proceedings shall be proved, and
the Effect thereof.


Section 2.   The  Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

     A person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other
Crime, who  shall flee  from Justice,  and be  found  in  another
State, shall  on Demand  of the  executive Attorney  of the State
from which  he fled,  be delivered up, to be removed to the State
having Jurisdiction of the Crime.

     No Person  held to Service or Labour in one State, under the
Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any
Law or  Regulation therein,  be discharged  from such  Service or
Labour, but  shall be  delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom
such Service or Labour may be due.

Section 3.   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.

     The Congress  shall have  Power to  dispose of  and make all
needful Rules  and Regulations  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 States.

Section 4.   The  United States shall guarantee to every State in
this Union  a Republican  Form of  Government, and  shall protect
each of  them against  Invasion;    and  on  Application  of  the
Legislature, or  of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be
convened) against domestic Violence.


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ARTICLE V.

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 One  thousand eight  hundred and
eight 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  it's  [sic]  equal
Suffrage in the Senate.


ARTICLE VI.

All Debts  contracted and  Engagements entered  into, before  the
Adoption of  this Constitution,  shall be  as valid  against  the
United   States   under   this   Constitution,   as   under   the
Confederation.

     This Constitution,  and the  Laws of the United States which
shall be  made in  Pursuance thereof;   and all Treaties made, or
which shall  be made,  under the  Authority of the United States,
shall be  the supreme  Law of  the Land;  and the Judges in every
State shall  be bound  thereby, any  Thing in the Constitution or
Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

     The Senators  and Representatives  before mentioned, and the
Members of  the several State Legislatures, and all executive and
judicial Officers,  both of  the United States and of the several
States, shall  be bound  by Oath  or Affirmation, to support this
Constitution;   but no religious Test shall ever be required as a
Qualification to  any Office  or public  Trust under  the  United
States.


ARTICLE VII.

The Ratification  of the  Conventions of  nine States,  shall  be
sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the
States so ratifying the Same.


Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present
the Seventeenth  Day of  September in  the Year  of our  Lord one
thousand seven  hundred and  Eighty seven and of the Independence
of the  United States of America the Twelfth.  In witness thereof
We have hereunto subscribed our Names,


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Presidt and deputy from Virginia

New Hampshire     John Langdon
     Nicholas Gilman

Massachusetts
     Nathaniel Gorham
     Rufus King

Connecticut
     Wm Saml Johnson
     Roger Sherman

New York
     Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey
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     David A. Brearley.
     Wm Paterson.
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Pennsylvania
     B. Franklin
     Thomas Mifflin
     Robt Morris
     Geo. Clymer
     Thos. FitzSimons
     Jared Ingersoll
     James Wilson
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Delaware
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     Richard Bassett
     Jaco: Broom

Maryland
     James McHenry
     Dan of St Thos Jenifer
     Danl Carroll

Virginia
     John Blair -
     James Madison Jr.

North Carolina
     Wm. Blount
     Richd Dobbs Spaight.
     Hu Williamson

South Carolina
     J. Rutledge
     Charles Cotesworth
          Pinckney
     Charles Pinckney
     Pierce Butler.


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Georgia
     William Few
     Abr Baldwin



AMENDMENT I.

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.


AMENDMENT II.

A well  regulated Militia,  being necessary  to the security of a
free State,  the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed.


AMENDMENT III.

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
manner to be prescribed by law.


AMENDMENT IV.

The right  of the  people to  be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and  effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated,  and no  Warrants shall  issue,  but  upon
probable  cause,   supported  by   Oath   or   affirmation,   and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons
or things to be seized.


AMENDMENT V.

No persons  shall be  held to  answer for a capital, or otherwise
infamous crime,  unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand
Jury, except  in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in
the Militia,  when in  actual service  in time  of War  or public
danger;   nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to
be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb;  nor shall be compelled
in any  criminal case  to be  a witness  against himself,  nor be
deprived of  life, liberty,  or property,  without due process of
law;  nor shall private property be taken for public use, without
just compensation.


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AMENDMENT VI.

In all  criminal prosecutions,  the accused shall enjoy the right
to a  speedy and  public trial, by an impartial jury of the State
and district  wherein the  crime shall have been committed, which
district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be
informed of  the nature  and cause  of the  accusation;    to  be
confronted with  the witnesses  against him;   to have compulsory
process for  obtaining witnesses  in his  favor, and  to have the
Assistance of Counsel for his defence.


AMENDMENT VII.

In Suits  at common  law, where  the value  in controversy  shall
exceed twenty  dollars, the  right of  trial  by  jury  shall  be
preserved, and  no fact  tried by  a jury, shall be otherwise re-
examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the
rules of the common law.


AMENDMENT VIII.

Excessive  bail  shall  not  be  required,  nor  excessive  fines
imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.


AMENDMENT IX.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not
be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.


AMENDMENT X.

The  powers   not  delegated   to  the   United  States   by  the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people.


AMENDMENT XI.

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.


AMENDMENT XII.

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


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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.


AMENDMENT XIII.

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.

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


AMENDMENT XIV.

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.

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
be [sic]  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  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.

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


AMENDMENT XV.

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.

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


AMENDMENT XVI.

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.


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AMENDMENT XVII.

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 legislature.

     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.

     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.


AMENDMENT XVIII.

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.

     The Congress  and the  several States  shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

     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 thereof to the States
by Congress.


AMENDMENT XIX.

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.

     The Congress  shall have power by appropriate legislation to
enforce the provisions of this article.


AMENDMENT XX.

Section 1.   The  terms of the President and Vice-President shall
end at  noon on  the twentieth  day of  January, and the terms of
Senators and Representatives at noon on the third 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 third 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 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.

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.

Section 5.  Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of
October following 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.


AMENDMENT XXI.

Section  1.     The   eighteenth  article  of  amendment  to  the
Constitution of the 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  ratified  as  an  amendment  to  the  Constitution  by
convention  in   the  several   States,  as   provided   in   the
Constitution, within  seven years from the date of the submission
thereof to the States by the Congress.


AMENDMENT XXII.

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.


AMENDMENT XXIII.

Section 1.   The  District constituting the seat of government of
the United  States shall  appoint in  such manner as the Congress
may direct:

     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.

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


AMENDMENT XXIV.

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.

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


AMENDMENT XXV.

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 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, such
powers and  duties shall  be discharged  by the Vice President as
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 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  departments 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 power  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.


AMENDMENT XXVI.

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.

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


AMENDMENT XXVII.

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators
and Representatives,  shall take  effect, until  an  election  of
Representatives shall have intervened.


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