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The Constitution of the United States of America

Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution

Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. Includes 2004 Supplement: Cases Decided to June 29, 2004.

Contents

• Introduction to the 2002 Edition
• Historical Note on Formation of the Constitution
• Constitution (Literal Print)
• Amendments (Literal Print)
• Proposed Amendments not Ratified by the States

The Constitution with 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, Oaths of Office
• Article VII. Ratification

Amendments to the Constitution

• First Through Tenth Amendments: Bill of Rights
• 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--Women's Suffrage Rights
• Twentieth Amendment--Terms of President, Vice President, Members of Congress: Presidential Vacancy
• Twenty-First Amendment--Repeal of 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

Other

• Acts of Congress Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court of the United States
• State Constitutional and Statutory Provisions and Municipal Ordinances Held Unconstitutional on their Face or as Administered

Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Co-Editors: Johnny H. Killian, George A. Costello and Kenneth R. Thomas. Contributors: David M. Ackerman, Henry Cohen and Robert Meltz.

Last modified: January 16, 2006