U.S. Constitution

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U.S. Constitution

• Articles
• Amendments

 

Annotations

• Preamble
• Article I - Legislative Department
• Article II - Executive Department
• Article III - Judicial Department
• Article IV - States' Relations
• Article V - Mode of Amendment
• Article VI - Prior Debts, National Supremacy and Oaths of Office
• Article VII - Ratification

Amendments

• First Amendment - Religion and Expression
• Second Amendment - Bearing Arms
• Third Amendment - Quartering Soldiers
• Fourth Amendment - Search and Seizure
• Fifth Amendment - Rights of Persons
• Sixth Amendment - Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions
• Seventh Amendment - Civil Trials
• Eighth Amendment - Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases
• Ninth Amendment - Unenumerated Rights
• Tenth Amendment - Reserved Powers
• Eleventh Amendment - Suits Against States
• Twelfth Amendment - Election of President
• Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
• Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed, Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection
• Fifteenth Amendment - Rights of Citizens to Vote
• Sixteenth Amendment - Income Tax
• Seventeenth Amendment - Popular Election of Senators
• Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors
• Nineteenth Amendment - Woman's Suffrage Rights
• Twentieth Amendment - Commencement of the Terms of the President, Vice President and Members of Congress.
• Twenty-First Amendment - Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
• Twenty-Second Amendment - Presidential Tenure
• Twenty-Third Amendment - Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia
• Twenty-Fourth Amendment - Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections
• Twenty-Fifth Amendment - Presidential Vacancy, Disability, and Inability
• Twenty-Sixth Amendment - Reduction of Voting Age Qualification
• Twenty-Seventh Amendment - Congressional Pay Limitation

 

• Original Senate Document Available in text and acrobat (.pdf) format from the US Government Printing Office Web Site.
• U.S. Constitution From Cornell Law School.
• U.S. Constitution Search From Emory Law School.
• U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Since 1893.

The Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress prepared this document, The Constitution of the United States of America: Analyis and Interpretation. Johnny H. Killian and George A. Costello edited the 1992 Edition. Johnny H. Killian, George A. Costello and Kenneth R. Thomas edited the 1996 and 1998 Supplements. George A. Costello and Kenneth R. Thomas edited the 2000 Supplement.

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